MINI-SHUNT EX-PRESS - A NEW POTENTIALS OF MICROINVASIVE GLAUCOMA SURGERY.
The newly invented ophthalmic surgery drainage device, Ex-PRESS minishunt, is designed to control the intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients. The 2.64 mm long minishunt is implanted into the anterior chamber angle area and enables an aqueous humour outflow into the intrascleral cavity or under the conjunctiva. The paper presents the information on the Ex-PRESS minishunt design and implantation technique. The authors' own clinical experience with the Ex-PRESS minishunt confirmed its efficiency, a minimum of surgery traumaticity and the absence of intra- and postoperative complications. Ex-PRESS implantation can be recommended as a primary or repeated surgery in open-angle glaucoma and in some forms of secondary glaucoma. A microinvasive Ex-PRESS minishunt glaucoma surgery enables an effective IOP stabilization for a long period of time. // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2010; 4:19-24.