{"id":624,"date":"2016-07-03T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/?p=624"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:06:48","slug":"glaukoma-xeiroyrgiki-antimetopisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/glaukoma-xeiroyrgiki-antimetopisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical treatment of glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgical treatment is the last resort for the treatment of glaucoma when conservative treatment has failed.<\/p>\n<p>There are many types of surgical treatments, which aim at improving the aqueous outflow, by creating an alternative drainage system.<\/p>\n<p>Some types of surgical treatments are the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Trabeculectomy<\/strong><br \/>\nWith this method, we surgically manufacture a new route for the outflow of the aqueous humour (artificial) from the anterior chamber to the outer surface of the sclera beneath the conjunctiva. This way, we can bypass the occluded\/dysfunctional filter which is the natural drainage route.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_652\" style=\"width: 725px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-image-652 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/drainage_valve_glaucoma.jpg\" alt=\"Glaucoma Valve\" width=\"715\" height=\"518\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glaucoma Valve<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>2. Anti-glaucoma Shunts:<\/strong><br \/>\nOur special anti-glaucoma surgical department has vast experience in the surgical insertion of anti-glaucoma Shunts.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the particularities of the patient\u2019s condition, the appropriate type of aqueous shunt is selected. As an indication, the shunts that are surgically used in our clinic are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahmed valve<\/li>\n<li>Baerveldt tube<\/li>\n<li>Express type shunt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgical treatment is the last resort for the treatment of glaucoma when conservative treatment has failed. There are many types of surgical treatments, which aim at improving the aqueous outflow, by creating an alternative drainage system. Some types of surgical treatments are the following: 1. Trabeculectomy With this method, we surgically manufacture a new route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}