BACKGROUND Microspherophakia is characterized by lenticular myopia, late development of lens dislocation, shallow anterior chamber and angle-closure glaucoma. If it is associated with angle closure glaucoma, the management can be challenging. OBJECTIVE To report the management of a case of bilateral secondary angle closure glaucoma with isolated microspherophakia and right subluxated lens in ...

This is the first report of a ring-shaped, primary cyst of the iris pigment epithelium. The patient, a 28-year-old woman, presented with angle closure glaucoma. Ocular pressure was controlled medically, and the iris cyst was treated by argon laser photocoagulation. The derivation of the cyst, differential diagnosis, and mechanism of angle closure glaucoma are discussed.

Glaucoma may be a contributory factor in the aetiology of retinal vein occlusion or may result from this condition. When glaucoma occurs secondary to retinal vein occlusion, it is usually considered to be due to vascularization of the anterior chamber angle and closure of the angle by goniosynechiae (Duke-Elder and Dobree, I967; Ballantyne and Michaelson, 1970). The two cases of retinal vein oc...

AIM To investigate the incidence of acute angle-closure glaucoma among residents of Dalmatia, southern part of Croatia. METHODS We reviewed hospital records of 176 patients with acute angle-closure glaucoma treated between January 1995 and December 2001 at the Departments of Ophthalmology at four hospitals in Dalmatia. There were 122 women, aged between 29 and 89 years (median age; 68 years),...

PURPOSE To understand the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) in Taiwan. METHODS Subjects with glaucoma were identified from the National Health Insurance Research Database of year 2006, which included one million randomly selected insurants. Individuals who had ≥4 ambulatory visits within one ye...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is a difference in disease severity between familial and sporadic primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). METHODS A cross-sectional study design compared the distribution of Glaucoma Inheritance Study in Tasmania (GIST) severity scores of patients with genealogically confirmed familial POAG and those with sporadic POAG. The GIST severity scores provide a combi...