Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report

BACKGROUND: XEN glaucoma implant (XEN gel stent, Aquesys, Inc) is a new minimally invasive device approved for the treatment of glaucoma. CASE PRESENTATION: A 45 year old female was being followed and treated for primary open angle glaucoma in our tertiary referral center. Due to failure of medical...

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Autores principales: Dervenis, Nikolaos, Mikropoulou, Athanasia Maria, Dervenis, Panagiotis, Lewis, Amanda
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28830369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-017-0540-1
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author Dervenis, Nikolaos
Mikropoulou, Athanasia Maria
Dervenis, Panagiotis
Lewis, Amanda
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description BACKGROUND: XEN glaucoma implant (XEN gel stent, Aquesys, Inc) is a new minimally invasive device approved for the treatment of glaucoma. CASE PRESENTATION: A 45 year old female was being followed and treated for primary open angle glaucoma in our tertiary referral center. Due to failure of medical treatment in controlling the glaucoma, surgery was offered to the patient. The XEN 45 μ-fistula implant was successfully placed in both eyes and adequate intraocular pressure control was achieved for 4 months. The left eye pressure then increased and the XEN implant was found in the anterior chamber. Topical intraocular pressure lowering therapy had to be re-initiated to achieve adequate pressure control. CONCLUSION: We describe a new potential complication of the XEN glaucoma implant.
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spelling pubmed-55680592017-08-29 Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report Dervenis, Nikolaos Mikropoulou, Athanasia Maria Dervenis, Panagiotis Lewis, Amanda BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: XEN glaucoma implant (XEN gel stent, Aquesys, Inc) is a new minimally invasive device approved for the treatment of glaucoma. CASE PRESENTATION: A 45 year old female was being followed and treated for primary open angle glaucoma in our tertiary referral center. Due to failure of medical treatment in controlling the glaucoma, surgery was offered to the patient. The XEN 45 μ-fistula implant was successfully placed in both eyes and adequate intraocular pressure control was achieved for 4 months. The left eye pressure then increased and the XEN implant was found in the anterior chamber. Topical intraocular pressure lowering therapy had to be re-initiated to achieve adequate pressure control. CONCLUSION: We describe a new potential complication of the XEN glaucoma implant. BioMed Central 2017-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5568059/ /pubmed/28830369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-017-0540-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Dervenis, Nikolaos
Mikropoulou, Athanasia Maria
Dervenis, Panagiotis
Lewis, Amanda
Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
title Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
title_full Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
title_fullStr Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
title_short Dislocation of a previously successful XEN glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
title_sort dislocation of a previously successful xen glaucoma implant into the anterior chamber: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28830369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-017-0540-1
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