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Aqueous Shunts and Stents for Glaucoma
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متن کاملAqueous Shunts and Stents for Glaucoma
©2014 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without permission from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Page 1 of 11 Applies to all products admin...
متن کاملAqueous Shunts and Stents for Glaucoma
Background/Overview Glaucoma surgery is intended to reduce IOP when the target IOP cannot be reached with medications. Due to complications with established surgical approaches such as trabeculectomy, a variety of shunts are being evaluated as alternative surgical treatments for patients with inadequately controlled glaucoma. Microstents are also being evaluated in patients with mild to moderat...
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Introduction Anti-glaucoma medicines, laser surgery and incisional surgery all seek to lower the intraocular pressure (IOP). Incisional surgery is indicated when medical treatment and/or laser surgery have failed, are likely to fail or are not available or practical. The most standard surgical procedure is trabeculectomy (or some variation thereof e.g. ExPRESS shunt): aqueous is shunted from th...
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Histologic, experimental, and theoretical studies of the aqueous outflow pathways point toward the juxtacanalicular region and inner wall of Schlemm's canal as the likely site of aqueous outflow resistance in the normal eye. At least 50% of the aqueous outflow resistance in the normal eye and the bulk of the pathologically increased resistance in the glaucomatous eye resides in the trabecular m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd004918.pub3