PURPOSE To investigate the possible association between tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)-308 G/A polymorphism and pseudoexfoliation (PEX) glaucoma. METHODS One hundred and ten Turkish PEX glaucoma patients and 110 healthy control subjects were enrolled in the study. All participants underwent a complete ophthalmic examination. TNF-alpha-308 was genotyped by polymerase chain reaction an...

Here, we report on a patient with pseudoexfoliation syndrome who developed acute angle-closure glaucoma with a marked myopic shift due to anterior dislocation of the posterior chamber intraocular lens almost 16 months after an uneventful phacoemulsification. Examination with a Scheimpflug camera was extremely useful in confirming the diagnosis. This is the fist case of late-onset angle-closure ...

AIMS To assess the risk profile for the failure of trabeculectomies in a large group of patients who were selected to be operated on without the use of antimetabolites. This was done in an effort to find subgroups of patients who may not need antimetabolites for primary procedures. METHODS Consecutive patients scheduled for routine trabeculectomies were operated during a 4 year period and wer...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of glaucoma and risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma in a rural population of southern India. DESIGN A population-based cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 5150 subjects aged 40 years and older from 50 clusters representative of three southern districts of Tamil Nadu in southern India. METHODS All participants had a comprehensive eye ...

The condition of pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule seems common in some racial groups, and a high incidence of the condition has been reported in Scandinavia (Ladekarl, I965; Hansen and Sellevold, I968; Klouman, I967; Thomassen, I949; Backhaus and Lorentzen, I966; Horven, i966a), and in Greece (Joannides, Katsourakis, and Velissaropoulos, I96i). This raises the question whether pseudoexfoli...

Aim: To study the clinical profile of pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome and Pseudoexfoliation glaucoma at tertiary care centre in Kashmir. Materials Methods: A cross sectional consisting 100 PEX PEXG patiens, attending general ophthalmology clinic a center kashmir. All patients underwent complete ophthalmologic evaluation including recording IOP,gonioscopy Central Corneal Thickness(CCT). Results...