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[Glaucoma drainage implants].

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde, 2010
The number of available glaucoma drainage implants has increased in recent years and now offers additional therapeutic opportunities in refractory glaucoma patients.In drainage surgery two different functional principles are practised. The most commonly used implants (Ahmed, Krupin, Schocket, Molteno, Baerveldt) drain ocular fluid via a silicone tube ...
E K, Reinthal, J M, Rohrbach, S, Grisanti   +2 more
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Glaucoma Drainage Implant Surgery

2012
Glaucoma drainage implant (GDI) surgery represents a significant advance in the treatment of refractory glaucomas. Recent randomized clinical trials have compared the efficacy and safety of this technique to standard trabeculectomy. Several types of implant are currently available and differ in surface area, shape, composition, and the presence or ...
Ahmad A, Aref, Steven J, Gedde, Donald L, Budenz   +2 more
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Glaucoma Drainage Implants in Pediatric Patients

Ophthalmology Clinics of North America, 2005
Approximately, one fifth of primary congenital glaucoma patients fail primary surgery. Also, some pediatric glaucomas respond poorly to goniotomy or trabeculectomy. In these situations, clinicians often choose trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C or a drainage implant as a surgical treatment.
Kyoko, Ishida, Anil K, Mandal, Peter A, Netland   +2 more
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Glaucoma Drainage Device Implantation, Outcomes, and Complications

International Ophthalmology Clinics, 2023
Glaucoma drainage device (GDD) surgery has gained popularity as a treatment strategy for patients with medically uncontrolled glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world and continues to be a major public health issue.
Julius T, Oatts, Ying, Han
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Epithelial Ingrowth and Glaucoma Drainage Implants

Ophthalmology, 1994
The authors report four cases of conjunctival epithelial invasion into the fibrous capsule surrounding a Baerveldt glaucoma implant. All cases were associated with concurrent or recent prior scleral buckling surgery.Three patients had postoperative conjunctival wound leaks, one in the immediate postoperative period and the other two at 9 and 17 days ...
P A, Sidoti, D S, Minckler, G, Baerveldt, P P, Lee, D K, Heuer   +4 more
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Complications of Glaucoma Drainage Implant Surgery

International Ophthalmology Clinics, 2000
Glaucoma drainage implants play an important role in the management of refractory glaucoma. It may be considered as a primary procedure in eyes with severe scarring of the conjunctiva and the limbus, neovascularization, multiple previous, failed filtering procedures, and severely glaucomatous eyes for which corneal graft is planned.
A H, Guerrero, M A, Latina
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Glaucoma Drainage Implants

2017
Glaucoma Drainage Devices (GDDs) or shunts were proposed by Molteno and coll in 1968 for the treatment of refractory glaucomas, meaning those cases at a high risk of failure following filter surgery or in cases in which surgery was already not successful.
Luigi Caretti, Lucio Buratto
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Diplopia after glaucoma drainage device implantation

Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 2013
To determine incidence of diplopia after glaucoma drainage device (GDD) surgery and to report treatment outcomes.Financial claims data were used to identify patients who underwent GDD surgery (CPT [Current Procedural Terminology] 66180) at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute from January 2, 1991, through December 31, 2005. After a second claims data search,
Amany, Abdelaziz, Hilda, Capó, Michael R, Banitt, Joyce, Schiffman, William J, Feuer, Craig A, McKeown, Nehemiah E, Spencer, Richard K, Parrish   +7 more
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Endophthalmitis Associated With Glaucoma Drainage Implants

Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To identify the clinical features, organisms, and treatment outcomes in patients with endophthalmitis associated with glaucoma drainage implants. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A retrospective noncomparative case series. RESULTS:
Carlos A, Medina, Michelle R, Butler, Avnish A, Deobhakta, Michael R, Banitt, Thomas A, Albini, William E, Smiddy, Audina M, Berrocal, Steven J, Gedde, Harry W, Flynn   +8 more
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Glaucoma Drainage Implants in Pediatric Patients

Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina, 1993
ABSTRACT To assess the use of drainage implants in pediatric patients with glaucoma refractory to conventional medical and surgical therapy, we retrospectively reviewed 20 consecutive eyes in children 10 years of age or younger treated with 16 Molteno (three of which were removed and replaced with second Molteno shunts) and seven Baerveldt ...
P A, Netland, D S, Walton
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