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[Acute open-angle glaucoma in a woman with AS hemoglobinopathy]
F Grunewald1, D Brousse, D Charpentier
1Service d'Ophtalmologie, CHU de Pointe-à-Pitre.
Journal Francais D'Ophtalmologie
|October 6, 1998
Abstract:
A 64-year-old black woman presented unilateral acute ocular hypertension. Gonioscopy showed a blood clot obstructing Schlemm's canal. Intraocular pressure returned to normal values after resorption of the blood clot. Hemoglobin electrophoresis found a sickle-cell trait, raising the hypothesis that the obstruction of outflow was probably due to the mechanism of sickling.