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The pаtient is аn 80-yeаr-оld female whо has been treated at the University Medical Center Glaucоma Clinic for many years. She has been seen several times in the past few months with increasing right eye pain. The patient’s chronic eye pain exists in a visually useless eye. The severe eye pain is the result of long-standing glaucoma, which is now considered absolute glaucoma. The patient is requiring increasing amounts of pain medications and is very tired of the constant eye pain. Surgical options were discussed with the patient and her daughter. Today, the patient was admitted to the hospital and underwent an open evisceration of the ocular contents with placement of an ocular implant. Admission was warranted since the physician was concerned about post-operative bleeding due to the patient’s long-standing hemophilia A condition. Principal Diagnosis: Secondary Diagnoses: Hint: pain is not always present with absolute glaucoma Add'l Diagnosis: Principal Procedure: