objective: to compare the frequency of helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection in subjects with primary open angle glaucoma (poag) vs controls. methods: in a case-control study, 44 patients with primary open angle glaucoma and 79 patients with senile cataract (control group) were investigated for serum level of anti-h. pylori antibody using the enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (elisa) method...

background: glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy and is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. different factors have been contributed in the pathogenesis of glaucoma including h. pylori infection. objective: to determine the levels of anti-h. pylori igg antibody in the aqueous humor of patients with pseudoexfoliation and primary open angle glaucoma, in comparison with age and ...

background: glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness and is usually associated with elevated intraocular pressure. in patients with primary open angle glau-coma the number of trabecular meshwork cells is decreased. death of the trabecular meshwork cells may be a result of apoptosis. objective: to investigate the aqueous humor levels of soluble fas (sfas) and fas-ligand (sfasl) in ...

purpose : to investigate the association of primary open angle glaucoma (poag) and systemic hypertension in patients referred to farabi eye hospital methods : in this case-control study in farabi eye hospital. one hundred patients were selected randomly from poag patients of glaucoma clinic, farabi eye hospital. control group consists of 100 patients, candidates for cataract surgery. history of...

In India, mutations in Cytochrome P450 (CYP1B1) are a predominant cause of not only primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) but also involved in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and juvenile onset glaucoma (JOAG). After ethical clearance, 100 POAG patients, 30 primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) patients and 130 ethnically matched controls were recruited in this study. Genomic DNA was is...

The two main issues that concern glaucoma patients before and after penetrating keratoplasty and posterior lamellar procedures and patients that develop glaucoma after surgery are the risks of graft failure and the aggravation of the glaucoma. Failure of the corneal graft may require regrafting, which increases the risk of developing or aggravating glaucoma, while uncontrolled glaucoma may resu...

PURPOSE To report the pattern of glaucoma among Saudi patients who were presented to King Abdul Aziz University Hospital (KAUH). METHODS All glaucoma or glaucoma suspect patients who were presented to KAUH from 2006 to 2008 were included; medical files of all patients were retrieved and evaluated through standardized international guidelines. Collected data included: age, sex, laterality, int...

lent cause of visual impairment and blindness in the United States, after cataracts and macular degeneration from aging. Glaucoma is a progressive disease that causes optic-nerve head damage. Open-angle glaucoma affects 0.5% of the total US population but affects a much higher percentage (about 3%) in people aged 70 and older (1,2). Glaucoma is characterized chiefly by an increase in intraocula...

purpose: to evaluate the histopathologic features of trabeculectomy specimens and the results of tra-beculectomy in relation with these features in patients with chronic primary glaucoma. methods: this interventional case series included 30 eyes of 28 patients with primary chronic glaucoma who underwent trabeculectomy between 2004 and 2006. each case was followed for 6 months post-operatively. ...