Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Surv Ophthalmol. 2013 Jan-Feb;58(1):95-101. doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2012.06.001. Epub 2012 Nov 13.
Count Sir Luigi Preziosi (1888-1965) was a famous ophthalmologist from the island Republic of Malta. He received his ophthalmic training in Rome and the United Kingdom. He practiced ophthalmology in Malta for 45 years and was a professor at the University of Malta. Like many physicians in Malta, he was active in the politics and governance of his country, serving as president of the Senate, president of the National Congress to draft a new constitution, and, finally, as president of the National Assembly of Malta. His most important ophthalmologic contribution was the development of the thermal sclerostomy filtering operation for glaucoma, which he first described in 1924. He referred to this operation initially as electro-cautery puncture and later simply as Preziosi's operation. Many surgeons considered this procedure an advance over the other available filtering operations such as sclerectomy, iridencleisis, and trephination. The operation was then further developed in 1957 by Harold G. Scheie of the University of Pennsylvania. Scheie referred to his procedure as peripheral iridectomy with scleral cautery, and it was a standard filtering operation for glaucoma for many years until the development of trabeculectomy.
路易吉·普雷齐奥西爵士（Count Sir Luigi Preziosi）（1888 年-1965 年）是马耳他共和国的一位著名眼科医生。他在罗马和英国接受眼科培训。他在马耳他从事眼科工作 45 年，并在马耳他大学担任教授。和许多马耳他医生一样，他积极参与国家的政治和治理，曾担任过参议院主席、起草新宪法的国民大会主席，以及马耳他国民议会主席。他最重要的眼科贡献是开发了用于治疗青光眼的热巩膜造瘘过滤手术，他于 1924 年首次描述了该手术。他最初将该手术称为电灼穿刺，后来简称为普雷齐奥西手术。许多外科医生认为该手术优于其他可用的过滤手术，如巩膜切除术、虹膜切除术和环钻术。该手术随后于 1957 年由宾夕法尼亚大学的哈罗德·G·谢伊进一步发展。谢伊将他的手术称为巩膜电灼周边虹膜切除术，该手术多年来一直是青光眼的标准过滤手术，直到小梁切除术的发展。
