Table 2. Indications for GDI surgery.
Previous incisional conjunctival surgery |
Failed trabeculectomy |
Complications arising from trabeculectomy in other eye |
Extracapsular cataract surgery |
Pars plana vitrectomy |
Scleral buckling procedures |
Corneal graft surgery |
Conjunctival disease |
Cicatricial inflammatory scarring |
Long-term antiglaucoma medication use |
Uveitic glaucoma |
Neovascular glaucoma |
Traumatic glaucoma |
Iridocorneal endothelial syndrome |
Paediatric glaucoma |
Congenital paediatric glaucoma |
Secondary glaucoma |
Iridocorneal dysgenesis |
Aphakia |
Aniridia |
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis |
Uveitis |
Sturge-Weber Syndrome |
GDI: Glaucoma drainage implant.