Evaluation of Risk Factors for Glaucoma Drainage Device-related Erosions: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 498-502

  Trubnik, Valerie ^a   Zangalli, Camila ^a   Moster, Marlene R ^a   Chia, Thomas ^b   Ali, Mohsin ^b   Martinez, Patricia ^a   Richman, Jesse ^a   Myers, Jonathan S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aqueous shunts; erosion; exposure; glaucoma drainage devices; glaucoma drainage implants; tube shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY EYE; EROSION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; KERATOPROSTHESIS; LASER COAGULATION; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; TRABECULECTOMY; VITRECTOMY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84942198490     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0000000000000034     Document Type: Article

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