Abstract:Purpose: To investigate the risk factors for Ex-Press® (EXP) surgery failure.Patients and Methods: This was a retrospective non-randomized study of 98 patients who had undergone EXP and were followed-up >5 years. We investigated the following nine risk factors: age, gender, hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), previous glaucoma surgery, type of glaucoma (primary open angle glaucoma vs. pseudo-exfoliation glaucoma), surgical methods (EXP alone vs. EXP+cataract surgery simultaneously), central corneal thickness… Show more
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