Long-term results with the White glaucoma pump-shunt

A White glaucoma pump-shunt was inserted in 16 eyes in 15 patients, 2 to 76 years of age (10 female and 5 male patients; 6 were white, 6 were black, and 3 were Hispanic). Six had primary open-angle glaucoma, 2 glaucoma in aphakia, 1 congenital glaucoma, 4 secondary glaucoma, 2 neovascular glaucoma, and 1 glaucoma in pseudophakia. There were no complete successes. There were five (31.3%) "qualified successes" (ie, an intraocular pressure less than or equal to 21 mm Hg on medical treatment, without pain, and without visual acuity loss of more than two Snellen lines). This qualified success rate is far below rates reported for other setons.