Cataract surgery with Hydrus microstent vs cataract surgery alone: Proportion of participants who required further glaucoma surgery, including laser
Cataract surgery with Hydrus microstent may leads to lower proportion of participants who required further glaucoma surgery,… compared with cataract surgery alone (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Cataract surgery with Hydrus microstent vs cataract surgery alone Proportion of participants who required further glaucoma surgery, including laser · people with cataracts and open angle glaucoma, many of whom had mild or moderate glaucoma, which was well‐controlled… Cataract surgery with Hydrus microstent may leads to lower proportion of participants who required further glaucoma surgery,… compared with cataract surgery alone (low certainty). Ab interno trabecular bypass surgery with Schlemm´s canal microstent (Hydrus) for open angle glaucoma (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.17 [0.03, 0.86] | 2 studies · 619 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ab interno trabecular bypass surgery with Schlemm´s canal microstent (Hydrus) for open angle glaucoma 2020 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.