Aqueous shunts for glaucoma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Tseng, Victoria L ^a   Coleman, Anne L ^a   Chang, Melinda Y ^a   Caprioli, Joseph ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; KETOROLAC; RANIBIZUMAB; TRIAMCINOLONE;

AHMED VALVE; BAERVELDT GLAUCOMA IMPLANT; CHOROIDAL EFFUSION; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CORNEA EDEMA; FLAT ANTERIOR CHAMBER; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MOLTENO IMPLANT; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NONVALVED OPHTHALMIC DRAINAGE DEVICE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; REVIEW; STRABISMUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRABECULECTOMY; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; META ANALYSIS;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MOLTENO IMPLANTS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 85026490711     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004918.pub3     Document Type: Review

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