Glaucoma surgery needs surgery

Glaucoma surgery depends mainly on the type of surgery.

Commonly used glaucoma surgery can be divided into laser surgery and external eye drainage surgery. If it is laser peripheral iridectomy, laser trabeculoplasty, cyclophotocoagulation and other laser surgery, through the use of its own high-frequency energy can achieve the purpose of treatment, usually without surgery; For conservative treatment can not control intraocular pressure or angle-closure glaucoma patients need to through the external eye drainage surgery, so that the aqueous humor in the eye out of the eye, while establishing a new aqueous channel to reduce intraocular pressure, this method requires surgery to cut the limbus and carry out the above operations, so surgery is needed.