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Abstract #71282 Published in IGR 18-3
Glaucoma Drainage Devices: Tube versus Trabeculectomy Study
Rosentreter A; Strzalkowski P; Bula AM; Alnawaiseh MKlinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde 2018; 235: 175-179
While trabeculectomy with mitomycin C has previously been the gold standard in penetrating glaucoma surgery, glaucoma drainage implants used early within glaucoma surgery were examined in the course of the tube versus trabeculectomy (TVT) study. Glaucoma drainage implants are now being used earlier, as materials are tissue-compatible and surgery has been improved. While in the past, the use of such implants was often carried out after multiple preoperations, implants are now being used at an earlier stage. Glaucoma drainage implants are typically still used in the pseudophakic eye, where 1-2 glaucoma preoperations (e.g. trabeculectomy) have already been performed.
Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg.
Full articleClassification:
12.8.2 With tube implant or other drainage devices (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)
12.8.1 Without tube implant (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)
