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Directed Therapy for Exfoliation Syndrome
Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is an age-related disorder of the extracellular matrix that leads the production of abnormal fibrillar material that leads to elevated intraocular pressure and a relatively severe glaucoma. Exfoliation material is deposited in numerous ocular tissues and extraocular organs. XFS is associated with ocular ischemia, cerebrovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease and ...
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In the Eye Outpatient Department of H.P. Medical College Hospital, Simla, nine cases of capsular exfoliation affecting seventeen eyes were seen in the course of 6 months. Their main features are given in Table I (overleaf, pp. I22 and 123). All the patients were males between the ages of 6o and 76 years. The capsular exfoliation was associated with phakodonesis, iridodonesis, glaucoma, primary ...
متن کاملExfoliation syndrome in Northern Nigeria
Purpose To estimate the frequency of exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and its association with ocular diseases in Northern Nigeria. Materials and methods Consecutive patients who presented to the outpatient department of ECWA Eye Hospital Kano from February 2015 to May 2015 were included in the study. Each patient had a complete ophthalmic examination. The anterior segment examination included tono...
متن کاملFactors in the exfoliation syndrome.
The study cohort consists of 459 subjects over 60 years of age. Intraocular pressure and degrees of exfoliation, lens changes, and pigment were recorded and their interrelationships investigated. A raised intraocular pressure was found to be associated with exfoliation, as also was increased pigmentation and the development of lens changes. An original observation is that the exfoliated males h...
متن کاملGenome-wide scan of exfoliation syndrome.
PURPOSE Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is an age-related ocular condition that is characterized by the accumulation of fibrillogranular extracellular material in intra- and extraocular tissues. The purpose of the present study was to identify the genetic basis of XFS in a large Finnish family. METHODS A genome-wide scan with 1000 microsatellite markers was performed in an extended family from an ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Open Ophthalmology Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1874-3641
DOI: 10.2174/1874364100903020070