OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of focal, late-onset, conjunctival bleb leaks after glaucoma filtering surgery. DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Tertiary care outpatient referral center. PATIENTS Consecutive patients who underwent glaucoma filtering surgery prior to June 1996 presenting for evaluation from September 2,1996, through November 15,1996. Five hundred ...

AIM To evaluate the efficacy and safety of glaucoma drainage device Ex-PRESS(®) P-50 for combined cataract surgery and glaucoma. METHODS Patients having cataract and open angle glaucoma or patients with open advanced glaucoma which needed two or more antiglaucoma medications were included. Combined cataract surgery and glaucoma with Ex-PRESS(®) P-50 model placed under scleral flap was perform...

Secondary glaucoma constitutes major sight-threatening complication of pediatric cataract surgery, yet the etiology remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term anterior segment configuration and the association with secondary glaucoma in pediatric pseudophakia. Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) was performed on 40 eyes of 26 children underwent pediatric cataract sur...

background: the celebrated generalized estimating equations (gee) approach is often used in longitudinal data analysis. while this method behaves robustly against misspecification of the working correlation structure, it has some limitations on efficacy of estimators, goodness-of-fit tests and model selection criteria. the quadratic inference functions (qif) is a new statistical methodology tha...

Purpose. To evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of the iStent inject device (Glaukos Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA) combined with phacoemulsification in patients with coexistent cataract and open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension (OHT). Methods. A prospective, uncontrolled, nonrandomized, interventional case series study was conducted in patients with both mild or moderate open-angle...

AIM To report on the effectiveness of systemic steroid-pulse therapy in treating idiopathic choroidal detachment. CASE PRESENTATION Our patient developed idiopathic choroidal detachment after cataract surgery for pseudoexfoliation glaucoma and glaucoma filtration surgery. Systemic steroid-pulse therapy was performed, and the choroidal detachment resolved completely. CONCLUSION We suggest sy...

BACKGROUND Oculocerebrorenal syndrome is an X-linked recessive hereditary oculocerebrorenal disorder characterized by congenital cataract, mental retardation, and Fanconi syndrome of the proximal renal tubules. Other ocular findings include glaucoma, corneal opacity (keloid), enophthalmos, and hypotonia. OBJECTIVE To describe the treatment of 7 patients (14 eyes) with bilateral cataracts asso...

purpose : to evaluate intraocular pressure (iop) and anterior chamber depth (acd) change after phacoemulsification with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 84 patients with senile cataract were included. all patients had normal iop. patients with traumatic and complicated cataract, any history of uveitis, glaucoma, or other ocular disease ...

Background: Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy and is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Different factors have been contributed in the pathogenesis of glaucoma including H. pylori infection. Objective: To determine the levels of anti-H. pylori IgG antibody in the aqueous humor of patients with pseudoexfoliation and primary open angle glaucoma, in comparison with age and ...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a genetic disorder which is inherited by autosomal dominant traits. In MFS, lens displacement and cardiovascular involvement are important causes of morbidity and mortality in the clinical course of the disease. In this case study, the ocular involvement in a family with severe penetration of MFS is reported. Twelve members of a family (father, two daughters, three sons...