Experimental results of the use of a new miсro drainage method.
The paper reports an experimental development of a new technique for glaucoma surgery using a microdrainage fabricated from polyfilament carbon fiber, a highly biocompatible sort of material. The results were encouraging as we observed a persistent hypotensive effect over a long period of follow-up (15 months) and morphological tests showed no inflammatory or degenerative changes in tissues surrounding the fiber. // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2011; 2:78-81.