BACKGROUND Neovascular glaucoma is a refractive glaucoma. Recently, anti-VEGF factors have been used alone or in combination for the treatment of neovascular glaucoma. However, the medium- and long-term efficacy of such drugs remains to be evaluated. This study was to determine the efficacy of intravitreal ranibizumab combined with Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation for the treatment of neovascu...

BACKGROUND The management of refractory glaucoma is a challenging task for any glaucoma surgeon. This study is aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Ahmed Glaucoma Valve implantation in refractory glaucomas in South-West Ethiopia. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted on the charts of consecutive patients treated with Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation at Jimma University Specialized Hospit...

BACKGROUND To describe management of a case of intraocular lens (IOL) and capsular bag (CB) dislocation in an eye with an Ahmed glaucoma valve in the posterior chamber. CASE PRESENTATION A 75-year-old pseudophakic man with open-angle glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy developed neovascular glaucoma. After two intravitreous injections of bevacizumab and panretinal photocoagulation were administ...

PURPOSE To report on the efficacy and safety of combined phacoemulsification and an Ahmed valve glaucoma drainage implant with respect to visual acuity improvement, intraocular pressure (IOP) control, and requirement for antiglaucoma medication. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted of 41 eyes (31 patients) with coexisting visually significant cataracts and uncontrolled glaucoma ...

This work aimed to compare the effectiveness of Ahmed valve implant versus sub-scleral trabeculectomy with mitomycin C in patients with neovascular glaucoma pretreated with intra-vitreal ranibizumab and panretinal photocoagulation. Methods: prospective comparative non-randomized controlled study including patients with NVG pretreated with intra-vitreal ranibizumab and PRP then evenly distribute...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a pars plana Ahmed valve implantation combined with 23-gauge sutureless vitrectomy in the treatment of patients with medically uncontrolled neovascular glaucoma (NVG) in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). METHODS The authors retrospectively reviewed the records of 11 consecutive patients with refractory NVG in PDR who underwent a 23-gauge ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the pars plana Ahmed glaucoma valve (New World Medical, Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, CA) implant combined with pars plana vitrectomy and panretinal photocoagulation for the management of neovascular glaucoma in patients with vitreous hemorrhage. PATIENTS AND METHODS The records of 18 eyes of 17 consecutive patients with neovascular gl...

Past Ocular History  Congenital cataracts OU  Chronic angle closure glaucoma OS  Anophthalmos OD  Pseudophakia OS Ocular surgery OD  Needling of congenital cataract 1938  Enucleation 1954  Secondary orbital implant 4/2011 Ocular surgery OS  Needling of congenital cataract 1938  DSAEK/Phaco/Intraocular lens x 2/Anterior vitrectomy 2/2007  Ahmed valve Seton model FP-7 with scleral patch...

background: the celebrated generalized estimating equations (gee) approach is often used in longitudinal data analysis. while this method behaves robustly against misspecification of the working correlation structure, it has some limitations on efficacy of estimators, goodness-of-fit tests and model selection criteria. the quadratic inference functions (qif) is a new statistical methodology tha...