A tube shunt is also the preferred surgical procedure ... without some of the associated risks of more traditional glaucoma ...

The primary outcome measure was IOP. Failure was defined as IOP > 21 mm Hg on two consecutive visits, additional glaucoma surgery, shunt removal, loss of light perception, any major complication ...

Gedde, MD, said at the American Glaucoma Society meeting. The TVT Study compares the safety and efficacy of tube shunt surgery with trabeculectomy with MMC in patients with previous ocular surgery.

Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery offers alternatives for patients looking for methods of treating glaucoma without ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Baerveldt tube-shunt surgery for glaucoma is cost-effective, despite the fact that it is more expensive than trabeculectomy, the gold-standard treatment, a new study has found.

A retrospective chart review was performed of patients with advanced glaucoma who underwent combined PPV and tube shunt surgery from 2006 to 2010. A minimum of 12 months of follow-up was required ...

and many patients were able to stop using their glaucoma medications." Dr. Kooner reported on the technique he uses to implant the shunt at the annual American Ocular Surgery Symposium in New York ...

The important prospective 5-year study of trabeculectomy and tube shunt surgery for glaucoma published by Gedde and colleagues in American Journal of Ophthalmology in 2012 confirmed that while ...

Surgery can help to reverse vision loss with cataracts, but glaucoma surgery cannot restore ... tra-BECK-yoo-LECK-toh-mee) or shunt procedure to relieve pressure in the eye. According to the ...

Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery is a surgical procedure performed ... MIGS devices come in various forms including stents, shunts, and other forms. Factors such as the increase in the ...

"Traditionally, filtration surgery has meant trabeculectomy or tube shunt surgery," he said ... to gather real-world data, he noted. "Glaucoma surgery outcomes notoriously vary wildly depending ...