The Ahmed Versus Baerveldt study: One-year treatment outcomes

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2180-2189

  Christakis, Panos G ^b   Kalenak, Jeffrey W ^c   Zurakowski, David ^d   Tsai, James C ^b   Kammer, Jeffrey A ^e   Harasymowycz, Paul J ^f   Ahmed, Iqbal I K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Drs Massaro and Kalenak   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AHMED VERSUS BAERVELDT STUDY; ARTICLE; BLEB NEEDLING; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT PROGRESSION; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CHOROIDAL EFFUSION; CHRONIC ANGLE CLOSURE GLAUCOMA; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENCAPSULATED BLEB; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPISCLERITIS; ERBIUM YAG LASER; EYE DISEASE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS SWEEP; IRITIS; LASER PERIPHERAL IRIDOTOMY; LENS IMPLANT; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT GLAUCOMA; MOTILITY DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NO LIGHT PERCEPTION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARACENTESIS; PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PERSISTENT CORNEAL EDEMA; PERSISTENT HYPHEMA; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHALLOW ANTERIOR CHAMBER; SUPRACHOROIDAL HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TRABECULOPLASTY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE EROSION; TUBE IRRIGATION; TUBE LIGATION; TUBE MALPOSITION; TUBE OBSTRUCTION; TUBE REPOSITION; TUBE REVISION; UVEITIC GLAUCOMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 80255136254     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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