Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene membrane alters tissue response to implanted ahmed glaucoma valve

Current Eye Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 562-567

  Decroos, Francis Char ^a,b   Ahmad, Sameer ^a   Kondo, Yuji ^a,b,c   Chow, Jessica ^a   Mordes, Daniel ^a   Lee, Maria Regina ^a   Asrani, Sanjay ^a   Allingham, R Rand ^a   Olbrich, Kevin C ^b   Klitzman, Bruce ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreign body reaction; Glaucoma; Glaucoma drainage implant; Polytetrafluoroethylene; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EDEMA; EXPLANT; EYE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMPLANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LONG TERM CARE; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TISSUE REACTION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CONJUNCTIVA; FIBROSIS; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RABBITS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 70350633741     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680902963167     Document Type: Article

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