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Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation: Graft-Free Short Tunnel Small Flap versus Scleral Patch Graft After 1 Year Follow-Up: A Randomised Clinical Trial

Version 1 : Received: 12 June 2018 / Approved: 15 June 2018 / Online: 15 June 2018 (09:40:16 CEST)

How to cite: Pakravan, M.; Hatami, M.; Esfandiari, H.; Yazdani, S.; Doozandeh, A.; Kheiri, B.; Conner, I. Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation: Graft-Free Short Tunnel Small Flap versus Scleral Patch Graft After 1 Year Follow-Up: A Randomised Clinical Trial. Preprints 2018, 2018060248. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201806.0248.v1 Pakravan, M.; Hatami, M.; Esfandiari, H.; Yazdani, S.; Doozandeh, A.; Kheiri, B.; Conner, I. Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation: Graft-Free Short Tunnel Small Flap versus Scleral Patch Graft After 1 Year Follow-Up: A Randomised Clinical Trial. Preprints 2018, 2018060248. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201806.0248.v1

Abstract

Purpose: To compare the efficacy and safety of graft-free short tunnel small flap (STSF) technique with that of scleral patch graft (SPG) in Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implantation. Design: Randomized clinical trial. Participants: Eighty-eyes of eighty patients with medically uncontrolled glaucoma including 41 in STSF and 39 eyes in SPG. Methods: Patients were enrolled and assigned randomly to STSF or SPG. Main Outcome Measures: tube exposure, Intraocular pressure (IOP), number of glaucoma medications, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), surgical complications, and success rate ( defined as intraocular pressure (IOP) >5 mmHg, ≤21 mmHg, and IOP reduction ≥20% from baseline at two consecutive visits after three months, no reoperation for glaucoma). Results: only one case in SPG developed tube exposure at 1-year follow-up. The cumulative probability of success during the first year of follow-up was 70% in the STSF and 65% in SPG (P = 0.36). IOP decreased significantly from 29.6 ± 8.6 mmHg at baseline to 16.4 ± 3.6 mmHg at the final follow-up in STSF (p = 0.001). The corresponding numbers for SPG were 30.9 ± 11.2 and 15.8 ± 4.7, respectively (p = 0.001). The final IOP was comparable between both groups (p = 0.65). Mean ± standard deviation of the number of glaucoma medications was 1.8 ± 0.9 in STSF and 1.6 ± 0.9 in SPG at final follow-up (P = 0.32). Postoperative complications developed in 8 patients (19%) in STSF and 9 patients (23%) in SPG (P = 0.81). Conclusions: STSF and SPG techniques had comparable complication rate at one-year follow-up. Both techniques were comparable in terms of success rate, postoperative IOP, and glaucoma medications.

Keywords

short tunnel small flap; glaucoma drainage device implantation; tube exposure; STSF; Ahmed glaucoma valve; AGV

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Ophthalmology

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