The Ahmed Versus Baerveldt study: Design, baseline patient characteristics, and intraoperative complications

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2172-2179

  Christakis, Panos G ^b   Tsai, James C ^b   Zurakowski, David ^c   Kalenak, Jeffrey W ^d   Cantor, Louis B ^e   Ahmed, Iqbal I K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Drs Massaro and Kalenak   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE; SILICONE OIL;

AGED; AHMED VERSUS BAERVELDT STUDY; APHAKIA; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC ANGLE CLOSURE GLAUCOMA; CLINICAL STUDY; COMBINED MECHANISM GLAUCOMA; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA ASSOCIATED WITH TRAUMA; GLAUCOMA ASSOCIATED WITH UVEITIS; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDOTOMY; IRIS RUBEOSIS; LASER SURGERY; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLIT LAMP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONOMETRY; TRABECULOPLASTY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80255137087     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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