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Table 3 Summary of different surgical procedures used for Sturge-Weber syndrome secondary glaucoma

From: Sturge-Weber syndrome secondary glaucoma: From Pathogenesis to Treatment

Surgery

Author(s)

Number of eyes

Follow-up (months)

Results

Common complications

GT

Yeung et al. [78]

46

12

Good IOP control in 2%

Hyphema, anterior chamber angle synechiae, etc.

Trabeculotomy

MAT

Wu et al. [81]

Hu et al. [84]

34

13

36

54

Complete (conditional) success rate 66.0% (86.6%)

Complete (conditional) success rate 76.2% (87.5%)

Hyphema, anterior chamber angle synechiae, etc.

Trabeculectomy

Sarker et al. [93]

20

22.95 ± 2.87

Complete (conditional) success rate 70%

Hypotony, subconjunctival fibrosis, filtering bleb failure, choroidal effusion, etc.

CTT

VTT

Senthil et al. [24]

Elwehidy et al. [89]

49

21

60

24

Complete (conditional) success rate 64% (89%)

IOP decreased by 57.6%

Hyphema, choroidal effusion, etc.

IOP spike, hyphema, etc.

AGV

BVT

Molteno tube

Ex-Press

Kaushik et al. [92]

Budenz et al. [94]

Amini et al. [95]

Wu et al. [96]

24

10

9

21

25.44 ± 10.44

35

6

36

Cumulative success rate 75%

Good IOP control in all eyes

Complete success rate 0%

Complete (conditional) success rate 40% (70%)

Hypotony, tube malposition, tube obstruction, tube exposure, corneal decompensation, etc.

NPDS

Almobarak et al. [98]

12

83.0 ± 74.2

Cumulative success rate 66.6%

TDW perforation, iris prolapse, choroidal effusion and choroidal detachment, etc.

CTNS

Huang et al. [99]

22

22.3 ± 4.0

Complete (conditional) success rate 52.4% (85.7%)

Hyphema, TDW perforation, iris prolapse, choroidal detachment, etc.

Cyclodestructive procedure

van Emelen et al. [101]

7

48 to 60

Cumulative success rate 85.7%

Hypotony, conjunctival edema, uveitis, etc.

  1. IOP = intraocular pressure; GT = goniotomy; MAT = ab externo microcatheter-assisted trabeculotomy; CTT = combined trabeculotomy with trabeculectomy; VTT = viscotrabeculotomy-trabeculectomy; AGV = Ahmed glaucoma valve; BVT = Baerveldt tube; NPDS = non-penetrating deep sclerectomy; CTNS = trabeculotomy-non-penetrating deep sclerectomy; TDW = trabeculo-Descemet window