The rate of visual field progression is an essential factor in determining risk disability or blindness glaucoma patients. Knowledge the a particular patient, combination with estimation their longevity and other clinical factors, allows clinicians to optimize management by providing appropriately aggressive treatment. Despite decades research on treatment glaucoma, natural history glaucomatous...

objective: pseudoexfoliation syndrome (pex) leads to some problems in the eye surgery specially cataract surgery. as the prevalence of eye problems is high in diabetic patients, we meant to assess the prevalence of pex in diabetic patients. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 400 type 2 diabetic patients aged 50 or above who referred to yazd diabetes research center were selec...

purpose: to evaluate the success rate and complications of single-plate molteno tube implantation in patients with intractable glaucoma. methods: this study was conducted on records of patients who underwent molteno tube implantation from 1995 to 2000 and had at least 18 months of follow-up. results: thirty six eyes of 35 patients including 20 male and 15 female subjects with mean age of 29.7±2...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens (pciol) implantation on intraocular pressure (iop) in eyes with chronic angle-closure glaucoma. methods: twenty-two patients with chronic angle-closure glaucoma (cacg) and visually significant cataract were included in our study. all were underwent phacoemulsification and pciol implantation. iop, depth...

the present study introduces a rare case with secondary glaucoma due to anterior chamber lipoma and uveitis in a pekingese dog in iran. a four-year-old castrated male pekingese dog was referred to the private clinic with impaired vision of the left eye, pain, rubbing the left eye onto carpet, presence of a milkycoloured mass into the anterior chamber, and loss of appetite. the clinical examinat...

Currently, the cause of uveopathies is unknown, there no radical treatment. The final these diseases blindness from glaucoma. author developed a hypothesis etiopathogenesis uveopathies, according to which trigger weakness accommodation caused by genetically determined excessively small distance between ciliary body and equator lens. following approaches solving problem are proposed: a). formati...

BACKGROUND Although glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, yet there are no large databases where risk factors, current management options and outcomes may be evaluated. With this concept in mind, Dallas Glaucoma Registry was established to focus on an ethnically mixed North Texas population. METHODS This is a retrospective, chart review of 2,484 patients (4,839 eyes) with glauco...

PURPOSE To investigate changes in the trend of anti-glaucoma ophthalmic solutions in 2000-2008 in a Japanese local community. MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects of this study were patients with glaucoma who were registered in the database of the glaucoma clinic of University of Yamanashi Hospital or the database of the Association for Research in Supporting System of Chronic Diseases (ARSSCD)...

BACKGROUND Data on prevalence of glaucoma in East Asia are scarce. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of glaucoma in adult Chinese Singaporeans. METHODS A group of 2000 Chinese people, aged 40 to 79 years, were selected from the electoral register of Tanjong Pagar district in Singapore using a disproportionate, stratified, clustered, random-sampling procedure...

AIMS To determine prevalence of glaucoma and glaucoma suspect in subjects 40 years and above in Sunsari district of eastern Nepal. METHODS A community based cross sectional study examining 1600 selected subjects was carried out. In all subjects best corrected visual acuity was determined. Oblique torch light test was used for anterior chamber depth evaluation. Intraocular pressure (IOP) measu...