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Clin Ophthalmol
December 2024
Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Special Surgery, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, 22110, Jordan.
Aim: The main indications for Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) include neovascular glaucoma, congenital glaucoma, primary open angle glaucoma and patients with failed previous trabeculectomy. This article aims to investigate the complications of AGV in Jordanian glaucoma patients and to justify the main risk factors.
Methods: Retrospectively, we report 87 eyes of 83 patients who underwent AGV implantation for different indications.
Klin Monbl Augenheilkd
December 2024
Glaucoma drainage devices (GDD) are used for patients with secondary glaucoma, such as uveitic or neovascular glaucoma, which is uncontrolled under local therapy. They are also used in patients with conjunctival scarring, for example after a previous vitrectomy or after unsuccessful previous glaucoma surgery, such as trabeculectomy. They are also a treatment option for congenital glaucoma, aphakic glaucoma or for the treatment of iridocorneoendothelial syndromes.
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November 2024
This is a case report of a female infant with two rare pathogenic chromosomal abnormalities: partial trisomy of chromosome 3 (3q25.2 to 3q29) and partial monosomy of chromosome 4 (4q34.1 to 4q35.
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November 2024
From the Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (S.G., A.P., R.A., A.K., A.K.P., V.G.), New Delhi, India.
Purpose: To compare the efficacy of circumferential gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT) vs hemi-GATT in primary congenital glaucoma (PCG).
Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial.
Methods: This study included children with PCG having corneal diameters <14 mm and relatively clear cornea.
Biomedicines
September 2024
Department of Ophtalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.
We report a surgically challenging case, in the context of a diagnosis of juvenile glaucoma refractory to drug therapy, multi-operated, known patient with congenital ichthyosis, part of Dorfman-Chanarin Syndrome (DCS), with a single functional eye. She is a young patient (54) and housewife in an urban environment known to have DCS and BE (both eyes), strong myopia, and congenital nystagmus. She initially underwent cataract surgery in 2015 and again in 2017.
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