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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">867</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>COMPARISON OF __ampersandsign#39;CUT AND PASTE (USING FIBRIN GLUE)__ampersandsign#39; VS __ampersandsign#39;CUT AND SUTURE (USING 8-0 VICRYL SUTURES)__ampersandsign#39; TECHNIQUES OF PTERYGIUM SURGERY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nishant</surname><given-names>Kumar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Prasad</surname><given-names>Vireshwar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shahnawaz</surname><given-names>Asif</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Akbar</surname><given-names>Muazzam Ali</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>64</fpage><lpage>76</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: In recent__ampersandsignnbsp; times, the universal trend toward simpler, quicker and more comfortable surgical procedures have fostered the development of suture-less techniques and hence use of fibrin glue for attaching conjunctival autograft after pterygium excision. Objectives: To assess and compare the mean surgical time, post-operative discomfort and recurrences among patients undergoing Pterygium excision and conjunctival autografting using fibrin glue; with Pterygium excision and conjunctival autografting using 8-0 Vicryl sutures. Materials and methods: 60 patients with primary pterygium randomized into two groups. Group A (n=30) underwent autografting using fibrin glue; Group B (n=30) underwent autografting using 8-0 Vicryl suture. P-value __ampersandsignlt;0.05 was considered statistically significant. Surgical times were noted as: Total surgical time from 1st conjunctival cut to removal of lid speculum, time for excision of pterygium and time to secure graft on the bed. Post operative discomfort was assessed using pretested questionnaires Results: Mean surgical time for Pterygium excision with conjunctival autografting using fibrin glue (15.86min) is significantly less as compared to sutures(27.93min); P=0.001. Post-operative discomfort was significantly less in cases of fibrin glue (10% patients) in comparison to suture group (56.6%patients). The observed difference between the recurrence rates in the group A (3.3%) and Group B (20%) was statistically significant. Conclusion: Fibrin glue reduces the surgical time, post-operative discomfort to the patients and has lower recurrence rates in comparison to conjunctival autografting using sutures following pterygium excision.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Pterygium</kwd><kwd> Conjunctival autografting</kwd><kwd> 8-0 Vicryl suture</kwd><kwd> Fibrin glue</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
