ExPRESS Miniature Glaucoma Device

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Case description

This is best considered a modified trabeculectomy operation. Instead of making a small hole a miniature stainless steel shunt (about the size of a grain of rice) is implanted under the ‘trapdoor’ created in the outer wall of the eye. Like trabeculectomy this allows the eye fluid to bypass the damaged drainage part of the eye to exit the eye more freely thus lowering eye pressure.
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tags: glaucoma eye operation trabeculectomy


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