Intermediate-term results of the Ex-PRESS miniature glaucoma implant under a scleral flap in previously operated eyes

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 421-428

  Lankaranian, Dara ^a   Razeghinejad, M Reza ^a,b   Prasad, Arun ^a   Fakhraie, Ghasem ^a   Freitas, Daniel J ^a   Ichhpujani, Parul ^a   Moster, Marlene R ^a  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ex PRESS shunt; Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTACT LENS; EX-PRESS MINIATURE GLAUCOMA IMPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; IMPLANT; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCLERA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960224449     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02481.x     Document Type: Article

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