We examined 55 patients (62 eyes) with primary closed-angle glaucoma. All of them were operated by ultrasonic phacoemulsification IOL implantation. The patients' age ranged from to 75 years (mean 65 years). There 42 (78.7%) women and 13 (21.3%) men. initial stage glaucoma was detected in 29 eyes, advanced 47 45 eyes. operation performed against the background acute subacute attack. Intraocular ...

Tonography was performed on 36 eyes of 15 normal and 3 primary open angle glaucoma patients using pneumatonography and classical Schiotz tonography. The average values of the coefficient of outflow facility (C) for the whole sample were virtually identical with both methods. However, both intersubject and interobserver variability were significantly higher with penumatonography. Although both m...

IT is universally accepted that the cardinal sign of primary closed-angle glaucoma is a raised intra-ocular pressure. It might even be considered that it would be a contradiction in terms to make a diagnosis of acute primary closed-angle glaucoma in a soft eye. It is, however, the purpose of this article to show that, in some rare cases, such a diagnosis can be made in spite of this finding; fo...

PURPOSE To report the results of screening first degree relatives of persons identified with primary open angle glaucoma in a tertiary eye hospital glaucoma services. DESIGN A cross-sectional study of first degree relatives of persons with primary open angle glaucoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS First degree relatives of patients identified with primary open angle glaucoma were invited to partici...

Malignant glaucoma is a rare form of glaucoma that typically follows surgery in patients with primary angle closure and primary angle-closure glaucoma. In this paper, the clinical features, classification, pathogenesis, and principles of management are discussed. Despite a high prevalence of primary angle closure glaucoma in South-East Asia, the vast majority of cases of malignant glaucoma are ...

BACKGROUND Glaucoma is an important cause of blindness. OBJECTIVE To report the distribution of various types of glaucoma among patients presenting to a tertiary eye hospital in Nepal. MATERIALS AND METHODS All new patients visiting the hospital between March 2007 and February 2008 underwent a comprehensive eye examination. Whenever glaucoma was suspected, patients were referred to fellowsh...

Glaucomas are a heterogeneous group of eye conditions with manifestation from as early as birth to very late age of onset in life. The primary type of these conditions affecting children and juveniles are less frequent, but the prevalence of glaucomas affecting older people of > or = 70 years progressively rises to approximately 5%. The molecular genetics of three types of glaucoma have been th...