Postoperative Complications in the Primary Tube Versus Trabeculectomy Study During 5 Years of Follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe postoperative complications encountered in the Primary Tube Versus Trabeculectomy (PTVT) Study during 5 years of follow-up.

Design

Multicenter randomized clinical trial.

Participants

A total of 242 eyes of 242 patients with medically uncontrolled glaucoma and no previous incisional ocular surgery, including 125 patients in the tube group and 117 patients in the trabeculectomy group.

Methods

Patients were enrolled at 16 clinical centers and randomly assigned to treatment with a tube shunt (350-mm² Baerveldt glaucoma implant) or trabeculectomy with mitomycin C (MMC, 0.4 mg/ml for 2 minutes).

Main outcome measures

Surgical complications, reoperations for complications, visual acuity, and cataract progression.

Results

Ea

SUBMITTER: Gedde SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9691562 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature