Assessing risk factors for postoperative hypotony in Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation surgery.

Potential risk factors such as age, sex, lens status, history of previous ocular surgeries, preoperative glaucoma medication usage or glaucoma type are not found to influence upon postoperative hypotony prevalence for AGV surgery. Surgery type and personal ocular factors, which could not be determined beforehand, could be more important than demographic features.