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Increased prevalence of occludable angles and angle-closure glaucoma in patients with pseudoexfoliation
F J Gross1, D Tingey, D L Epstein
1Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston.
American Journal of Ophthalmology
|March 15, 1994
Abstract:
The association between angle-closure glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation is controversial. We retrospectively studied the angle configurations of 54 patients with pseudoexfoliation and found gonioscopically occludable angles in five cases (9.3%). We also analyzed the data from several large studies of pseudoexfoliation patients and found an increased prevalence of acute angle-closure glaucoma in this group. These data suggest that pseudoexfoliation patients may represent a high-risk population for the development of angle-closure glaucoma.