Randomised Clinical Trial for Postoperative Complications after Ex-PRESS Implantation versus Trabeculectomy with 2-Year Follow-Up.

ABSTRACT: We compared complications between Ex-PRESS implantation and trabeculectomy for 2 years after surgery. Sixty-four open-angle glaucoma eyes were randomly assigned to treatment with trabeculectomy (n = 32) or Ex-PRESS implantation (n = 32). The primary outcomes were postoperative complications, including reduction of the endothelial cell density (ECD) of the cornea, cataract progression and the frequency of other late postoperative complications. The Ex-PRESS group had significantly greater reduction of postoperative corneal ECD than the trabeculectomy group did at 2 years after surgery (P = 0.026). Among the corneal areas measured using specular microscopy, the superior area, where the Ex-PRESS tube was inserted, had significantly more severe corneal ECD reduction than the inferior area afte

SUBMITTER: Arimura S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6212395 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature