Association between capsulectomy shunt revision and Ahmed glaucoma valve implant exposure——Shanghai Ahmed glaucoma valve implant exposure (AGVIE) study
Feng Gao, Manman Jin, Xiaobo Yu, Junyi Chen, Yi Dai, Yuhong Chen, Jiajian Wang, Xueli Chen, Li Wang, Yuan Fang, Kaidi Wang, Tingting Liu, Ye Lin Kwan, Shaohong Qian, Xinghuai Sun, Xiangmei Kong · 2026
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Description
Feng Gao's team published a 2026 study of what makes an Ahmed glaucoma valve become exposed through the eye's surface. The valve is a drainage implant for hard-to-treat glaucoma, and exposure is a failure that can end its usefulness. Records covered 2,905 eyes receiving a first implant at a Shanghai eye hospital across ten years. The team compared eyes that suffered exposure with those that did not, hunting for surgical and patient predictors.
Exposure occurred in seventy-five eyes, an incidence of 2.6 percent. One factor stood out in every analysis: having undergone capsulectomy shunt revision, a follow-up operation that cuts away scar tissue around the device. That operation carried roughly four times the odds of later exposure. Because the design is retrospective, the authors urge caution, but they advise careful planning and close watching after revision surgery, when the implant's cover may be thinnest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Feng Gao, Manman Jin, Xiaobo Yu, Junyi Chen, Yi Dai, Yuhong Chen, Jiajian Wang, Xueli Chen, Li Wang, Yuan Fang, Kaidi Wang, Tingting Liu, Ye Lin Kwan, Shaohong Qian, Xinghuai Sun, Xiangmei Kong |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26196 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |