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Glaucomas are a heterogeneous group of eye conditions with manifestation from as early as birth to very late age of onset in life. The primary type of these conditions affecting children and juveniles are less frequent, but the prevalence of glaucomas affecting older people of > or = 70 years progressively rises to approximately 5%. The molecular genetics of three types of glaucoma have been th...

angiosarcomas are endothelial cell neoplasms in the lining of the blood vessel wall and account for about 0.04% of all breast malignancies with a high rate of error in primary diagnosis. the breast angiosarcoma is a rare and uncommon pathology and has been described mostly as case reports. indeed, only a limited number of cases have been published. accordingly, the natural history of this tumor...

purpose : to compare the ability of scanning laser polarimetry (gdx vcc), and optical coherence tomography (oct) to discriminate eyes with primary open angle glaucoma (poag) from normal eyes and to assess the relationship between their parameters methods : eighty-seven glaucomatous eyes of 87 patients and 25 normal eyes were enrolled. the mean age of patients and normal group were 54.96±18.34 a...

Introduction: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is now commonly used for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. In the present study we compared the outcomes of this technique with those obtained by conventional thoracotomy.Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional stud, forty patients were enrolled into two groups: VATS (n=20) and thoracotomy (n=20). In both groups the blebs were resected ...

In India, mutations in Cytochrome P450 (CYP1B1) are a predominant cause of not only primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) but also involved in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and juvenile onset glaucoma (JOAG). After ethical clearance, 100 POAG patients, 30 primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) patients and 130 ethnically matched controls were recruited in this study. Genomic DNA was is...

purpose : to assess the efficacy and safety of sutureless punch trabeculectomy as substitute for conventional scleral flap trabeculectomy. methods : in a prospective, randomized study, 44 eyes of 42 patients with primary open angle glaucoma (poag) who were candidate of trabeculectomy were included and randomly assigned into two groups sutureless punch trabeculectomy or conventional scleral flap...