Congenital Glaucoma – Case Reports

A Case of Primary Congenital Glaucoma

An 11-year-old girl and a case of primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) with negative family history of glaucoma, was referred to our glaucoma service for uncontrolled intraocular pressure (IOP). Maximum tolerable medications and multiple glaucoma operations had failed to control her IOP. Review of the patient’s chart revealed an IOP of 30 mmHg and horizontal corneal diameter of 11.5 mm in both eye...

Case Reports Congenital Malaria in Newborn Twins

A 28-year-old woman (G2P1A), with 36 weeks gestation, reported to a health facility in Sunyani on 22 February 2009 with history of labour pains, without fever. She was reported to have taken sulphadoxinepyrimethamine for malaria prophylaxis during the pregnancy but did not use insecticide-treated net. She delivered twins on the same day. The mother and the twins developed fever on the same day....

Congenital cytomegalovirus infection: three autopsy case reports.

We report three autopsy cases of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in fetuses with a review of literature. The clinical manifestations in these cases of congenital CMV infection include intrauterine fetal death, hydrops fetalis, and CMV pneumonia associated with cardiovascular defect. The pathological characteristics were as follows: 1) the kidney was the most frequently involved organ...

A Case of Congenital Glaucoma of Unusual Type.

trabeculotomy in congenital glaucoma

Congenital glaucoma is one of the main causes of blindness in children and is more common in Saudi Arabia than in Western countries, perhaps owing to the prevalence of consanguinity with families. Trabeculotomy has given poorer results in Saudi Arabia than elsewhere. This study compared the results of trabeculotomy (67% success rate) with trabeculectomy (54% success rate), and reports fewer com...