PURPOSE To understand the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) in Taiwan. METHODS Subjects with glaucoma were identified from the National Health Insurance Research Database of year 2006, which included one million randomly selected insurants. Individuals who had ≥4 ambulatory visits within one ye...

A REVIEW of the literature of the past 10 years shows little published work on the results ofsurgery in acute closed-angle glaucoma. This is rather surprising in view of the wider use of the classification into simple glaucoma and closedangle glaucoma (see, for example, Duke-Elder, 1955) and the better understanding of some of the mechanisms involved in the latter type. This has led to the use ...

THAT glaucoma simplex may affect more than one member of a family is well known, but this would usually appear to occur in a sporadic fashion and have no hereditary significance. When true hereditary glaucoma occurs it is found in many members of the same family and is frequently traced over three or four generations. These families are, however, rare and have been well documented (Francois, 19...

PURPOSE To determine the incidence and contribution of different types of glaucoma to blindness at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, a suburban tertiary care hospital in Edo State, Nigeria. METHODS Medical records of all new patients with glaucoma who presented to the eye clinic of the hospital from June 2007 to May 2009 were reviewed. RESULTS Out of a total of 2,742 new patients seen ove...

PURPOSE To evaluate in different types of glaucoma frequency of family history of glaucoma (FHG), age at diagnosis, glaucoma risk in relatives, and acceptance rate of genetic glaucoma tests. To assess stage of visual field loss (VFL) in relation to FHG. METHODS Using standardized questions whether an ophthalmologist had found or excluded glaucoma or ocular hypertension (OH), 2170 patients wit...

BACKGROUND To compare refractive outcomes after cataract surgery between patients with closed-angle and open-angle glaucoma and evaluate the influence of preoperative factors on refractive outcomes in patients with glaucoma. METHODS Patients diagnosed with glaucoma and who underwent uncomplicated cataract surgery were enrolled in this retrospective observational study. We collected data inclu...

ONLY a few instances of genetic linkage in man have so far been established. One of them is the linkage between hereditary elliptocytosis and the Rh antigens, the genes for which, in some families at least, are both carried on the same chromosome pair (Goodall, Hendry, Lawler, and Stephen, 1953; Marshall, Bird, Bailey, and Beckner, 1954; Morton, 1956; Clark, Donohoe, Finn, McConnell, Sheppard, ...

there are reports from different countries that some types of glaucoma are associated with blood groups. this cross-sectional study was performed on 400 glaucomatous patients [100 patients in each group of primary open angle glaucoma (poag), chronic angle closure glaucoma (cacg), pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (pexg) and primary congenital glaucoma (pcg)] and 400 blood donors as control group to as...

AIM To estimate the prevalence of glaucoma among people worldwide. METHODS Available published data on glaucoma prevalence were reviewed to determine the relation of open angle and angle closure glaucoma with age in people of European, African, and Asian origin. A comparison was made with estimated world population data for the year 2000. RESULTS The number of people with primary glaucoma i...

Although glaucoma is a major global cause of blindness, the lack of a uniform definition of the disease in its different forms makes it difficult to assess its public health impact. By considering the common features of glaucoma, we have analysed available data on the three main forms of the disease: congenital/hereditary glaucoma, primary open-angle, and primary angle-closure glaucoma. A simpl...