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01-11-2019 | Original Paper

Evaluation of antimitotic and antiangiogenic effect of preoperative subconjunctival application of mitomycin C in primary pterygium: a randomized trial

Authors: Thiago Gonçalves dos Santos Martins, Ana Luiza Fontes de Azevedo Costa, Karina Mie Furuzawa, Roger Chammas, Milton Ruiz Alves

Published in: International Ophthalmology | Issue 11/2019

Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate the influence of preoperative mitomycin C (MMC) on the proliferative behavior of fibroblasts and fibrovascular tissue derived from the primary pterygium using the immunohistochemical method (Ki67 and CD34).

Design

Randomized clinical trial.

Subjects, participants and/or controls

Sixty-five patients with primary pterygium were randomly selected and divided into one of three groups. The control group had 29 patients that were only submitted to pterygium removal. The group that received the MMC injection a month before surgery had 16 patients, and the group that received the MMC 2 weeks before surgery had 20 patients. Each patient only had one eye operated on.

Methods

Sixty-five patients were selected to undergo pterygium excision surgery. We randomly placed the patients into three groups: one without MMC (n = 29), one with MMC application 1 month before surgery (n = 16) and another with MMC application 2 weeks before surgery (n = 20). Subconjunctival injection was applied with 0.1 ml of 0.02% MMC in the pterygium body, and patients were followed for 2 years.

Main outcome measures

Proliferative behavior of fibroblasts and fibrovascular tissue using the immunohistochemical method (Ki67 and CD34) comparing the three groups.

Results

Of the total 29 patients (44.6%) in the control group (without MMC application), 11 cases had recurrence (37.9%), of which seven (63.6%) were within 3 months of follow-up and four (36.3%) within 6 months of follow-up. The mean proliferation index of the recurrent cases was 4.5%, and of the cases without recurrence, it was 6.1%. There were 16 patients (24.6%) in the MMC application group 1 month before surgery, in which one case (6.25%) recurred at 6 months. In the group with MMC application 2 weeks before surgery, of the total of 20 patients (30.7%), there was one case of recurrence (5%) at 6 months. The proliferation index of the group that had MMC administered and did not have a recurrence was 7.2%, and in the group with recurrence, it was 6.4%. The CD34-labeled cell count was 5.8% among cases with recurrence and 5.6% in cases without recurrence. No side effects of MMC application were reported during the study follow-up period.

Conclusion

MMC was efficient to reduce the recurrence index despite the absence of a direct relation with its antimitotic and antiangiogenic effect in the samples that were analyzed.

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Title: Evaluation of antimitotic and antiangiogenic effect of preoperative subconjunctival application of mitomycin C in primary pterygium: a randomized trial
Authors: Thiago Gonçalves dos Santos Martins
Ana Luiza Fontes de Azevedo Costa
Karina Mie Furuzawa
Roger Chammas
Milton Ruiz Alves
Publication date: 01-11-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: International Ophthalmology / Issue 11/2019
Print ISSN: 0165-5701
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2630
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-019-01081-0

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Evaluation of antimitotic and antiangiogenic effect of preoperative subconjunctival application of mitomycin C in primary pterygium: a randomized trial

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Design

Subjects, participants and/or controls

Methods

Main outcome measures

Results

Conclusion

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