Surgical outcomes of superior versus inferior glaucoma drainage device implantation

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 32-36

  Martino, Amy Z ^a   Iverson, Shawn ^a   Feuer, William J ^a   Greenfield, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baerveldt; Glaucoma; Glaucoma drainage device; Inferior; Intraocular pressure; Superior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAERVELDT GLAUCOMA IMPLANT; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CHOROIDAL EFFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA LIMBUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRITIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84979860389     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e318287ac8f     Document Type: Article

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