Artigo Revisado por pares

Histopathology of the Ex-PRESS™ Shunt

2011; Volume: 42; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3928/15428877-20110922-01

ISSN

2325-8179

Autores

Hassan A. Aziz, Francisco Fantes, Sander Dubovy,

Tópico(s)

Connexins and lens biology

Resumo

The authors report the histopathologic features of a human enucleated eye with an Ex-PRESS shunt (Optonol, Ltd., Neve Ilan, Israel). An 86-year-old man with a blind painful eye underwent enucleation. He had a history of glaucoma with an Ex-PRESS shunt implanted. Histopathologic evaluation of the specimen showed a thin layer of fibrotic tissue surrounding the implant. In this case, the Ex-PRESS shunt was relatively well tolerated in the human eye.

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