Standard Trabeculectomy and Ex-PRESS Miniature Glaucoma Shunt: A Comparative Study and Literature Review

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 410-416

  Moisseiev, Elad ^a,b   Zunz, Eran ^a,b   Tzur, Rotem ^a,b   Kurtz, Shimon ^a,b   Shemesh, Gabi ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ex PRESS; glaucoma; intraocular pressure; trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE SAFETY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONVALVED OPHTHALMIC DRAINAGE DEVICE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRABECULECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 84939562527     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0000000000000047     Document Type: Review

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