Systematic Occlusion of Shunts: Control of Early Postoperative IOP and Hypotony-related Complications Following Glaucoma Shunt Surgery.

Objective: Evaluation of a protocol of total intraluminal occlusion of Baerveldt shunts and its effects on early postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) control and hypotony-related complications.

Design: This was a noncomparative, prospective, and interventional study.

Participants: Glaucoma patients were recruited to undergo Baerveldt shunt surgery.

Surgery for epimacular membrane: impact of retinal internal limiting membrane removal on functional outcome.

Purpose: To examine eyes that underwent vitrectomy and peeling of epimacular membrane and to correlate the functional results with the presence or absence of an internal limiting membrane (ILM) in the histologic specimens.

Methods: Seventy-one eyes underwent vitrectomy and peeling of an epimacular membrane. These membranes were examined with a transmission electron microscope.

Long-term results of deep sclerectomy with collagen implant.

Purpose: To study prospectively the success rate and complications of deep sclerectomy with collagen implant (DSCI).

Setting: Glaucoma Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, Hôpital Ophtalmique Jules Gonin, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Methods: This nonrandomized prospective trial comprised 105 eyes of 105 patients with medically uncontrolled primary and secondary open-angle glaucoma.

Ultrasound biomicroscopy images: long-term results after deep sclerectomy with collagen implant.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to understand the long-term outflow pathway mechanisms after deep sclerectomy - when collagen implant is resorbed - using ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM).

Methods: Forty-three eyes of 32 patients with medically uncontrolled open-angle glaucoma at least 1 year after deep sclerectomy were studied in an observational, non-randomised, consecutive case series. Postoperatively 15 eyes (35.