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SUBMITTER: Gedde SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2813602 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Middle East African journal of ophthalmology 20090701 3
The Tube Versus Trabeculectomy (TVT) Study is a multicenter randomized clinical trial comparing the safety and efficacy of tube shunt surgery to trabeculectomy with mitomycin (MMC) in eyes with previous cataract and/or failed glaucoma surgery. Tube shunt surgery was more likely to maintain intraocular pressure (IOP) control and avoid persistent hypotony, reoperation for glaucoma, or loss of light perception vision than trabeculectomy with MMC during the first year of follow-up. Both surgical pro ...[more]