New Ab Interno Technique for Removal of Iris-Embedded EX-PRESS Shunt and Chronic Eye Pain Caused by Shunt Malpositioning
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New ab interno technique for removal of iris-embedded EX-PRESS shunt and chronic eye pain caused by shunt malpositioning.
The EX-PRESS shunt (Alcon Laboratory) is a stainless steel implant designed to shunt aqueous from the anterior chamber to the subconjunctival space.Thedevice isplacedundera scleral flap,with the lumenideallypositionedparallel to the iris. A properly positioned EX-PRESS shunt creates acontrolledcommunicationbetween the anterior chamber and the bleb.1 Several shunt-specific complications havebeen...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Ophthalmology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2168-6165
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2013.4274