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Eighteen eyes of 18 patients who had undergone XEN gel stent implantation were analyzed. Blebs were imaged using Visante OCT (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Germany) at 6 months and 1 year after surgery and evaluated for quantitative parameters including bleb height, maximum height of internal cavity, maximum bleb wall thickness, and maximum bleb epithelial thickness. Subjects were classified into two groups according to the presence or absence of a definite internal cavity between the conjunctiva and sclera using AS-OCT imaging. Nine eyes (50%) were assigned to the internal cavity group and 9 (50%) to the uniform group. Postoperative IOP was significantly lower in the internal cavity group than in the uniform group both at 6 months and 1 year after surgery (p = 0.024 and p = 0.040). Postoperative IOP showed statistically significant negative correlations with bleb height and the height of the internal cavity (Spearman correlation coefficient r = \u22120.518, p = 0.028 and r = \u22120.453, p = 0.034, respectively). AS-OCT facilitates analysis of bleb morphology after XEN gel stent implantation. 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