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Table 3 Intraoperative and postoperative complications

From: Intravitreal ranibizumab injection combined trabeculectomy versus Ahmed valve surgery in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma: assessment of efficacy and complications

 

IVR group (n = 18)

Ahmed group (n = 19)

intraoperative

0

0

Early postoperativea

  

Shallow or no anterior chamber

hypotony

Hyphema

Exudative inflammation

0

0

0

0

3(15.8 %)

6(31.6 %)

1(5.3 %)

1(5.3 %)

subtotal

0

11(57.9 %)

Late postoperativeb

  

Hyphema

Vitreous hemorrhage

endophthalmitis

Shallow or no anterior chamber

High IOP

Tube occlusion by iris

1(5.5 %)

1(5.5 %)

0

0

1(5.5 %)

0

0

2(10.5 %)

0

1(5.3 %)

3(15.8 %)

2(10.5 %)

subtotal

3(16.7 %)

8(42.1 %)

total

3

19

  1. aEarly postoperative: within two weeks after the surgery; bLate postoperative: after two weeks of the surgery