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Assessing Early Stage Open-Angle Glaucoma in Patients by Isolated-Check Visual Evoked Potential
Published on: May 25, 2020
Bilateral juvenile onset primary open-angle glaucoma among keratoconus patients
Sahil Goel1, Anita Ganger, Viney Gupta
1Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Purpose:
To report the occurrence of juvenile open-angle glaucoma (JOAG) in patients with keratoconus.
Patients And Methods:
In this observational case series we report 6 eyes of 3 patients with keratoconus who had concomitant JOAG. Corneal topography, intraocular pressure, gonioscopic, and fundus findings were recorded for all the eyes.
Results:
All 3 patients presented with corneal ectasia, high intraocular pressure, and advanced glaucomatous damage and had no family history of glaucoma or keratoconus. Two of the 3 patients needed collagen cross-linking with riboflavin for progression of keratoconus and trabeculectomy for control of intraocular pressure. One of the patients also underwent a lamellar keratoplasty for keratoconus.
Conclusions:
This is the first case series pointing toward a possible association of JOAG with keratoconus and highlights the importance of a thorough workup of glaucoma in patients with keratoconus.
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