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Arch Ophthalmol. 2006;124:903-904.

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Why did my surgery fail, doc? This is a question few surgeons want to hear, and it is always difficult to answer. The surgeon may invoke a number of hypotheses on her own, which might include the adverse effects of previous surgical interventions, the persistence of significant levels of inflammation, or inadequate patient adherence to a complex postoperative regimen. Should the surgeon mention heredity as an explanation for failure?

In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Drs Ishida and Netland¹ suggest that heredity may play a role in the success of Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation. In a nonrandomized, retrospective analysis of a series of self-reported cases with African American and white patients, these investigators found a statistically significant difference between these 2 groups when the success of this procedure was evaluated. Success was defined in 2 ways: (1) intraocular pressure (IOP) greater than or equal to 6 mm Hg . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Eve J. Higginbotham, MD

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