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Table 6 Needling rates and complications

From: Outcome of a single XEN microstent implant for glaucoma patients with different types of glaucoma

needling procedures

64 in 54 eyes

POAG: 38 of 113 (34%)

NTG: 1 of 5 (20%)

PEX: 12 of 22 (55%)

Sec. Gl.: 3 of 13 (23%)

choroidal detachment

20 of 153 (13%)

prominent or large subconjunctival hemorrhage

12 of 153 (8%)

hyphaema

10 of 153 (7%)

shallow anterior chamber

3 of 153 (2%)

macular edema

3 of 153% (2%)

conjunctival erosion

2 of 153 (1%)

uveitis

1 of 153 (< 1%)

keratitis

1 of 153 (< 1%)

corneal erosion

1 of 153 (< 1%)

  1. Needling rate for the whole group of patients (as well as for the four subgroups of the different types of glaucoma treated) and the rate of other complications observed during the first 12 months of follow-up after XEN microstent implantation in uncontrolled glaucoma in all groups together