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Aqueous shunts. Molteno versus Schocket
R P Wilson1, L Cantor, L J Katz
1Glaucoma Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Ophthalmology
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
The authors conducted a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial to test whether the Schocket shunt with a larger shunt reservoir surface area would provide a lower final intraocular pressure than the double-plate Molteno implant. However, the Molteno implant produced a statistically lower intraocular pressure at 6 months compared with the Schocket shunt. Postoperative visual acuity, glaucoma medications, and complications were not statistically different.