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Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 Elevated intraocular pressure is the main risk factor for glaucoma and its adjustment to physiological levels can prevent progression of the disease. If conventional drop-based glaucoma therapy fails, surgical interventions such as trabeculectomy or the ...
Reske Thomas +7 more
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BMC Ophthalmology, 2021 Background Glaucoma drainage implants have been used with increasing frequency for the management of glaucoma. Patients who are candidates for glaucoma drainage devices often have more severe disease and are at risk of vision loss with post-operative ...
Monica Kenney Ertel +5 more
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Modern technologies of refractory glaucoma treatment. Review
Oftalʹmologiâ, 2014 this article presents a review of available literature concerning basic directions of refractory glaucoma treatment. the surgical management of refractory glaucoma is presented by two main groups of surgical techniques: filtering surgery (including ...
A. Yu. Rascheskov, I. A. Loskoutov
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A novel flexible microfluidic meshwork to reduce fibrosis in glaucoma surgery. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 PURPOSE/RELEVANCE:Fibrosis and hence capsule formation around the glaucoma implants are the main reasons for glaucoma implant failure. To address these issues, we designed a microfluidic meshwork and tested its biocompatibility in a rabbit eye model. The
Behzad Amoozgar +9 more
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Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research, 2013 Glaucoma drainage devices (GDD) occupy an important place in the surgical management of glaucoma that is not responding to medications and trabeculectomy operations.
Parul Singh +4 more
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Surgical management of glaucoma in microspherophakia using quadruple procedure
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 Background: Microspherophakia is a rare developmental lens anomaly with increased anteroposterior and reduced equatorial diameter. It presents with refractive myopia, shallow anterior chamber, and angle closure glaucoma.
Sharmila R Rajendrababu +3 more
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Keratoprostheses for corneal blindness: a review of contemporary devices [PDF]
, 2015 According to the World Health Organization, globally 4.9 million are blind due to corneal pathology. Corneal transplantation is successful and curative of the blindness for a majority of these cases. However, it is less successful in a number of diseases
Avadhanam, Venkata +2 more
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Intraluminal Deposits Found in Glaucoma Tube Shunts Via Anterior Segment Ocular Coherence Tomography [PDF]
, 2018 PURPOSE: To describe and characterize a novel observation of intraluminal deposits of glaucoma tube shunts (TS) using spectral domain (SD) ocular coherence topography (OCT).
Alvarado, Jorge A. +2 more
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Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 With the advent of nonpenetrating glaucoma surgeries (NPGS), these techniques are noticed more considerably by glaucoma surgeons due to lower complications in comparison to penetrating surgeries with comparable outcomes.
Saeed Shokoohi-Rad +2 more
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A review of the role of ultrasound biomicroscopy in glaucoma associated with rare diseases of the anterior segment [PDF]
, 2016 Ultrasound biomicroscopy is a non-invasive imaging technique, which allows high-resolution evaluation of the anatomical features of the anterior segment of the eye regardless of optical media transparency.
Abdolrahimzadeh, B +5 more
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