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. 2021 Sep 1;47(9):1133-1138.
doi: 10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000000610.

Comparison of refractive outcomes after combined cataract and glaucoma surgery: trabeculectomy and glaucoma drainage device implantation

Shotaro Asano  1 , Teck Chang Victor Koh, Maria Cecilia Aquino, Ka-Ann Dawn Lim, Chelvin Cheryl Anges Sng, Seng Chee Loon, Tec Kuan Paul Chew
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Comparison of refractive outcomes after combined cataract and glaucoma surgery: trabeculectomy and glaucoma drainage device implantation

Shotaro Asano et al. J Cataract Refract Surg. .

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the refractive outcome of combined cataract surgery and glaucoma drainage device (GDD) implantation compared with trabeculectomy and cataract surgery.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, National University Health System, Singapore.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Methods: 206 eyes were enrolled for analysis: 50 had combined cataract surgery and trabeculectomy (trabeculectomy group), 50 had combined cataract surgery and GDD implantation (GDD group), and 106 had cataract surgery alone (control group). Refractive prediction error and absolute prediction error of each glaucoma surgery group were compared with the control group. Subgroup analysis was performed in the following axial length (AL) subgroups: short (<22.5 mm), medium (≥22.5 to <25.5 mm), and long (≥25.5 mm).

Results: In total, 206 eyes were examined. There was no statistically significant difference in the overall refractive prediction error between the GDD (0.00 ± 0.54 diopters [D]) and the control group (0.10 ± 0.53 D, P = .58). There was significant myopic refractive prediction error in the trabeculectomy group (-0.18 ± 0.88 D, P = .020). In eyes with short AL, a greater absolute prediction error was observed in the GDD group (-0.75 ± 0.43 D, P = .039).

Conclusions: Apart from a significant deviation in short AL eyes, combined cataract surgery and GDD implantation demonstrated no significant postoperative refractive prediction error.

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