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Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy associated with nonneovascular chronic angle-closure glaucoma
A Azuara-Blanco1, S R Pesin, L J Katz
1Glaucoma Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Jefferson Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.
Purpose:
Cases of angle-closure glaucoma in patients with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy have been reported secondary to neovascularization of the anterior segment. Cases secondary to nonneovascular mechanisms have not been previously reported.
Methods:
Two cases are presented of angle-closure glaucoma as a result of a nonneovascular mechanism.
Results:
Neovascularization was found to be a very unlikely explanation for the angle closure in these two cases.
Conclusion:
There may be an association between familial exudative vitreoretinopathy and angle-closure glaucoma as a direct result of a retrolental process or more likely a relative lens-iris pupillary block with a large lens.
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