Film 84385: Novel Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation Technique in Advanced Glaucoma | ASCRS
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Film 84385: Novel Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation Technique in Advanced Glaucoma
April 2022
Meeting: 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting
Presenting Author: Yoichiro Masuda, MD
Category: Glaucoma Surgery
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Although the Ahmed Glaucoma Valve (AGV) is useful, it has a low success rate in neovascular glaucoma and Sturge-Weber syndrome due to encapsulated cyst formation caused by vigorous fibrovascular membrane growth. We have devised a new AGV surgical technique for such refractory glaucoma and have achieved good surgical results, and would like to introduce this technique.