Combined Cataract and Trabeculectomy Surgery

When the decision has been made to perform cataract surgery in a glaucoma patient, the options of cataract surgery alone with a microinvasive procedure, or combined with conjunctival involving glaucoma surgery, are available to the surgeon. Trabeculectomy is the glaucoma procedure that has been by history most frequently and for the longest time combined with cataract surgery, to assist in the control of intraocular pressure (IOP). Other combined procedures are discussed elsewhere in the text. As discussed throughout the text, cataract and glaucoma often present in the same patient and are common comorbidities.