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B Haargaard1, P K Jensen, S V Kessing
1Glaucoma Clinic, E 2064, The Center of Head and Orthopaedics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Purpose:
To study the effect of exercise on the configuration of the anterior chamber angle in healthy persons.
Methods:
Both eyes of 22 healthy persons were scanned by Ultrasound Biomicroscopy. Before and after 10 minutes of exercise the anterior chamber angle and the area of the peripheral anterior chamber were measured on the scannings.
Results:
After exercise the anterior chamber angle/peripheral area increases in all eyes due to changes in the iris configuration. The myopic group shows the largest change.
Conclusion:
Reverse pupillary block (iris concavity) is not pathognomonic in pigmentary glaucoma, it occurs in all normal eyes after exercise, most pronounced in myopics. Consequently, the difference between physiological and pathological reverse pupillary block has to be clarified.
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