Pigmentary glaucoma
SJO-Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology. 1991; 5 (4): 186-92
in English
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| ID: emr-22202
ABSTRACT
Pigment Dispersion Syndrome [PDS] is characterized by loss of pigment from the iris pigment epithelium, with radial mid - peripheral iris defects shown by transillumination, and associated with the deposition of pigment on the zonules, anterior and posterior lens surfaces, corneal endothelium [Krukenberg spindle] and trabecular meshwork. This clinical appearance with persistently elevated Intraocular Pressure [IOP] is termed Pigmentary Glaucoma [PG]. It is generally believed that the accumulation of pigment in the aqueous outflow system, leading to obstruction and damage of trabecular meshwork, causes elevation of IOP and the development of pigmentary glaucoma [PG]. Hence both pigment dispersion syndrome [PDS] and pigmentary glaucoma [PG] have the same clinical and gonioscopic features except for the presence of elevated intraocular pressure which occurs only in PG
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IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Trabeculectomy
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Fluorescein Angiography
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Glaucoma
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Iris
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Intraocular Pressure
Language:
English
Journal:
Saudi J. Ophthalmol.
Year:
1991
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