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Lead
Duke University
Age
18–90
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Men or women with age at screening ≥ 18 years and ≤ 90 years
Inadequately controlled glaucoma
Valve-less aqueous shunt as the planned surgical procedure
Patients with primary glaucomas or pseudoexfoliation, pigmentary and traumatic glaucoma with a previous failed trabeculectomy or other intraocular surgery included.
Primary tubes included
Investigators to recruit consecutively all eligible patients from their clinics.
Superotemporal or inferonasal placement of the tube
Capable and willing to provide consent
You may not be if
NLP
Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent
Unavailable for regular follow up
Previous cyclodestructive procedure
Prior scleral buckling procedure or other external impediment to supratemporal drainage device implantation
Presence of silicone oil
Vitreous in the anterior chamber sufficient to require a vitrectomy
Uveitic glaucoma
Neovascular glaucoma
Nanophthalmos
Sturge-Weber syndrome or other conditions associated with elevated episcleral venous pressure
Procedure combined with other surgery
Any abnormality other than glaucoma in the study eye that could affect tonometry.
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