Assertion: tube shunt | /r/HasProperty | powerful tool
Facets:
value: in the fight against glaucoma
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Recent results from the Tube Versus Trabeculectomy (TVT) Study, a multicenter randomized clinical trial that compared tube-shunt surgery with trabeculectomy for glaucoma in patients who had undergone cataract surgery or failed trabeculectomy, show that tube shunts are a powerful tool in the fight against glaucoma—with a higher surgical success rate, lower complication rate, and fewer repeat surgeries five years after the procedure compared with trabeculectomy.1,2