Sponsel, William E.
Groth, Sylvia
March de Ribot, Francesc
Ramos, Hannia
Puig, Madeleine http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8227-3077
Article History
Received: 3 September 2018
Revised: 5 November 2018
Accepted: 9 November 2018
First Online: 3 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: With the single exception listed below, all authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. William Sponsel is a co-patentee with Mateen Ahmed of New World Medical for the novel concept of shunting aqueous humor into the retrobulbar space. William Sponsel is also a co-patentee with AJL for the bleb-to-back (B2B) and anterior-to-back (A2B) tube shunts.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.