Fifty-nine eyes undergoing combined cataract extraction and trabeculectomy were studied. The follow-up period ranged from 6 months to 2 years. The visual outcome and postoperative control of intraocular pressure have been compared in chronic open-angle, chronic closed-angle, and secondary glaucoma. Good results were obtained in both primary open- and closed-angle glaucoma, but not in secondary ...

Primary angle-closure glaucoma is a major cause of blindness worldwide. It is a disease of ocular anatomy that is related to pupillary-block and angle-crowding mechanisms of filtration angle closure. Eyes at increased risk for primary angle-closure are small with decreased axial length, anterior chamber depth, and filtration angle width, associated with a proportionately large lens. Angle-closu...

Photostress recovery time was measured in 30 eyes from 15 patients with chronic open angle glaucoma, and 30 eyes from 15 individuals of a similar age group with no ophthalmological disorder. The average recovery time in patients with glaucoma was 70.47 (SD 35.39) seconds. The average recovery time in the control population was 41.97 (SD 17.34) seconds. This difference was statistically signific...

Chronic angle-closure glaucoma is a major cause of blindness, particularly in Asia. The goals of management are to prevent both progression of anatomic angle-closure and progression of glaucomatous optic neuropathy, the latter by controlling intraocular pressure. Laser iridotomy to eliminate pupillary block is the definitive initial treatment and laser peripheral iridoplasty is the second-line ...

AT WHAT stage in its course closed-angle glaucoma may be said to have become chronic is difficult to define. When, however, pathological cupping of the optic disc and visual field loss have occurred in an eye with closedangle glaucoma, the disease may reasonably be said to have reached the chronic stage. The aqueous outflow in such an eye is usually regarded as being permanently impaired by the...

The delayed development of brain abscess associated with a retained intracranial foreign body is not rare and has been documented [1-5] . We report an unusual case of chronic granulomatous abscess in the cerebellopontine angle region secondary to retention of a cotton ball during surgery for an acoustic neurinoma 20 years earlier. We describe the computed tomographic (CT) findings and emphasize...

BACKGROUND A previous study examined the relationship between the sacral inclination angle (SIA), lumbosacral angle (LSA) and sacral horizontal angle (SHA) and spinal mobility in acute low back pain and chronic low back pain patients. We chose to investigate the lumbar lordosis angle, segmental lumbar lordosis angle, SIA, LSA and SHA in acute and chronic low back pain (LBP) patients as well as ...