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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1395-3907
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.00951.x