PURPOSE To report a patient with symptomatic intraocular pressure (lOP) elevation in an eye with neovascular glaucoma (NVG) during hemodialysis. METHODS Case report. RESULTS Recurrent episodes of severe ocular pain and elevated IOP in the NVG eye were noted during hemodialysis in a 29-year-old man. The patient was recently diagnosed at our ophthalmology clinic with NVG due to central retina...

INTRODUCTION Glaucoma is a known complication of uveitis, and may require glaucoma tube shunt implantation for intraocular pressure (IOP) control. The success of glaucoma tube shunt implantation in the setting of a local ocular steroid depot in uveitic glaucoma remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine whether patients who underwent combined glaucoma tube shunt (Ahmed) and flu...

OBJECTIVE To report the 1-year treatment outcomes of the Ahmed Versus Baerveldt (AVB) Study. DESIGN Multicenter randomized clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS A total of 238 patients were enrolled in the study, including 124 in the Ahmed group and 114 in the Baerveldt group. METHODS Patients aged 18 years or older with uncontrolled glaucoma refractory to medicinal, laser, and surgical therapy we...

The purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Ahmed valve implantation in children with refractory postuveitic glaucoma (PUG). Material methods . was implanted 10 aged 7 17 years (10 eyes) open-angle or mixed PUG uncompensated even by a maximum antihypertensive mode. Previously, all patients had undergone an average 2.1 ± 0.9 surgeries aimed at normalizing intraocular pressure (IOP...

Aims—To evaluate the eYcacy and safety of the Ahmed glaucoma valve implant in Chinese eyes with complicated glaucomas. Methods—This retrospective study reviewed the final intraocular pressure, visual outcome, and incidence of complications in all patients with the Ahmed glaucoma valve implant performed at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, between June 1996 and November 1998. Results—A to...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Ahmed glaucoma valve model M4 (High density porous polyethylene plate; Medpor) compared with the model S2 (polypropylene plate). METHOD Mexican patients with neovascular glaucoma were randomly included for each group (M4 and S2). They were operated on using conventional techniques and creating a sub-episcleral tunnel to place ...