OBJECTIVE This retrospective study was designed to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of travoprost 0.004% substituted for latanoprost 0.005% in glaucoma patients at the Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a chart review of patients with stable intraocular pressure (IOP) undergoing a formulary change in regimen from latanoprost 0.005% to...

PURPOSE To investigate rates of visual field progression and factors associated with progression rate in open-angle glaucoma in clinical glaucoma care. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review of all patients with manifest primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEXG) followed ≥ 5 years with ≥5 SITA Standard fields. Exclusion criteria were minimal. Demograp...

Purpose. To compare the macular and peripapillary choroidal thickness in eyes with pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome and PEX glaucoma with the normal eyes of healthy controls. Materials and Methods. In this prospective study, 30 eyes of 30 patients with PEX syndrome, 28 eyes of 28 patients with PEX glaucoma, and 30 eyes of 30 age-matched healthy subjects were enrolled. Choroidal thicknesses in t...

INTRODUCTION Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and risk factors of glaucoma and modes of therapeutical intervention in a rural population of a developing country. PATIENTS AND METHODS A single centre-based cross-sectional study was carried out over a seven-month period in Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital (SCEH), Lahan/NEPAL, i...

Phacoemulsification with mechanical pupil dilation was performed on a functionally monocular glaucoma patient with pseudoexfoliation syndrome. The postoperative course was complicated by persistent intraocular hemorrhaging from the pupil margin in multiple locations that ceased temporarily with a marked elevation in intraocular pressure (IOP). Normalization of IOP with medication or paracentesi...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Previous reports have suggested that the success rate for trabeculectomy is poorer in younger age groups but these studies often have heterogeneous groups representing different types of glaucoma with variable surgical prognosis. Therefore, the relation between age and the success of trabeculectomy in the single diagnostic category of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) without i...

PURPOSE To report a case of corneal decompensation due to the Ex-PRESS(®) mini glaucoma shunt device (Ex-PRESS). PATIENT AND METHODS A 75-year-old man had pseudoexfoliation glaucoma in his right eye. He underwent filtration surgery with Ex-PRESS. His intraocular pressure was 7 mmHg after 9 months. RESULTS We observed partial decompensation of the corneal endothelium adjacent to the filterin...

Prior glaucoma severity staging systems were mostly concerned with visual field function and retinal nerve fiber layer, but did not include intraocular pressure or medications to capture resistance to treatment. We recently introduced a simple index that combines pressure, medications, and visual field damage and applied it to stratify outcomes of trabectome surgery. In the analysis presented h...