title: [Glaucoma Drainage Devices: Tube versus Trabeculectomy Study].
abstract: While trabeculectomy with mitomycin C has previously been the gold standard in penetrating glaucoma surgery, glaucoma drainage implants used early within glaucoma surgery were examined in the course of the tube versus trabeculectomy (TVT) study. Glaucoma drainage implants are now being used earlier, as materials are tissue-compatible and surgery has been improved. While in the past, the use of such implants was often carried out after multiple preoperations, implants are now being used at an earlier stage. Glaucoma drainage implants are typically still used in the pseudophakic eye, where 1-2 glaucoma preoperations (e.g. trabeculectomy) have already been performed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosentreter
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Strzalkowski
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bula
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alnawaiseh
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000601:surgery; D020327:Glaucoma Drainage Implants; D016685:Mitomycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D012086:Reoperation; D014130:Trabeculectomy; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D016685:Mitomycin