Background: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PES) is a systemic disease characterized by the aggregation of fibrillar extracellular material in intraocular and extraocular tissues with unknown etiology. Clarifying etiopathogenesis PES would be important for public health. Objectives: We aimed to investigate possible role Chlamydia etiology PES. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out oph...

It is a matter of considerable clinical interest whether removal of the lens causes regression of pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule. Before the paper by Dvorak-Theobald (I954), pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule was often confused with true exfoliation, and it was suggested that lens extraction caused the condition to disappear (Irvine, I940; Gradle and Sugar, I947). After this paper app...

BACKGROUND/AIM Pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) is an age-related systemic degenerative disorder characterized by the production and progressive accumulation of extracellular fibrillar eosinophilic material in the anterior segment of the eye. The aim of the study was to evaluate several clinical aspects of PEX, such as frequency of PEX and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEXG), intraocular pressure...