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Combined Surgeries: Glaucoma Drainage Devices and Cataract

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Cataract accounts for 50–80% of the bilateral blind in India with an annual incidence of two million cases of cataract-induced blindness [1–3]. Both cataract and glaucoma commonly coexist and often need to be tackled together [4].

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  1. Centre of Sight, New Delhi, India

    Sagarika Patyal

  2. INHS Asvini, Mumbai, India

    Santosh Kumar

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Suneeta Dubey

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  1. Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Monica Gandhi

  2. Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, India

    Shibal Bhartiya

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Patyal, S., Kumar, S., Dubey, S. (2019). Combined Surgeries: Glaucoma Drainage Devices and Cataract. In: Gandhi, M., Bhartiya, S. (eds) Glaucoma Drainage Devices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5773-2_12

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