- An Efficient Approach to Predict Eye Diseases from Symptoms Using Machine Learning and Ranker-Based Feature Selection Methods. [Journal Article]
- The eye is generally considered to be the most important sensory organ of humans. Diseases and other degenerative conditions of the eye are therefore of great concern as they affect the function of this vital organ. With proper early diagnosis by experts and with optimal use of medicines and surgical techniques, these diseases or conditions can in many cases be either cured or greatly mitigated. …
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- The inflammatory cytokine profiles and ocular biometric characteristics of primary angle-closure glaucoma. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Changes in the ocular anatomy and some inflammatory markers might be involved in the pathogenesis of PACG.
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- Lens subluxation after use of a percussion massage gun: A case report. [Case Reports]
- CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers, sports professionals and the general public should be aware of the dangers of PMGs and the need to use them appropriately and safely, for example during self-massage and rehabilitation therapy. In particular, we recommend not using PMGs above the neck, which should be clearly indicated in instruction manuals.
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- Iridotomy to slow progression of visual field loss in angle-closure glaucoma. [Review]
- Primary angle-closure glaucoma is a type of glaucoma associated with a physically obstructed anterior chamber angle. For example, contact between the iris and lens at the pupillary margin creates a pupillary block that increases resistance to aqueous outflow. Obstruction of the anterior chamber angle blocks drainage of fluids (aqueous humor) within the eye and may raise intraocular pressure (IOP)…
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- Anterior Segment Parameter Changes after Cataract Surgery in Open-Angle and Angle-Closure Eyes: A Prospective Study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Extractions of crystalline lenses played similar roles in terms of decreasing the anterior rotation of ciliary processes in open-angle eyes and angle-closure eyes. A natural anatomical abnormality may be a more important factor in the anterior rotation of ciliary processes in PACG patients.
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- Clinical presentation of acute primary angle closure during the COVID-19 epidemic lockdown. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The time between the onset of APAC symptoms and its treatment during the COVID-19 epidemic lockdown was significantly prolonged, which increased the blindness rate of APAC patients.
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- Bilateral choroidal effusions and angle closure in the setting of systemic capillary leak syndrome from HLA-directed vaccine and pembrolizumab therapy for squamous cell carcinoma. [Case Reports]
- CONCLUSIONS: Choroidal effusions and secondary angle closure can be rare complications of SCLS in the setting of ICIs. Clinicians must be aware of the potentials side effects of ICI therapy, as these medications become more commonly used.
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- Novel Discoveries of the Relationship Between the Vitreous Zonule and the Anterior Segment Characteristics in Eyes With Primary Angle-Closure Disease. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: VZ was less likely to be observed in PAC/PACG eyes. PACD eyes with less VZ had narrower angle, more anteriorly rotated ciliary body, and greater LV.
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- Optic nerve head vessel density using OCTA in patients with primary angle closure disease: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. [Review]Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther. 2022 Dec 06; 41:103209.PP
- CONCLUSIONS: This study has shown that the elevated intraocular pressure is an important factor affecting optical nerve perfusion in PACD. The decreasing in cpVD and RNFL thickness was more severe in the PACG and APAC group.
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- [Superior vena cava syndrome associated with bilateral angle closure glaucoma]. [Case Reports]Orv Hetil. 2022 Dec 04; 163(49):1967-1971.OH
- Superior vena cava syndrome is a set of symptoms resulting from partial or complete blockage of the superior vena cava. In the majority of cases, it develops secondary to lung tumors and lymphoma. It is characterized by edema of the head, neck, and upper limbs, large veins, and dyspnoea. Ophthalmological changes related to the syndrome rarely occur: eyelid swelling, conjunctival chemosis and suff…
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- Glaucoma in Pregnancy: Know What Next!! [Case Reports]
- Glaucoma is a complex disease which when encountered in pregnancy poses a challenge to the woman's obstetrician and her ophthalmologist. The dilemma arises while opting the line of management, either medical or surgical which requires balancing the clinical disease of the mother with the potential threat of therapy to the growing child. Such was our case an elderly primigravida 10 weeks of gestat…
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- Bilateral posterior scleritis due to giant cell arteritis. [Case Reports]BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Nov 25; 15(11)BC
- A woman aged mid 70s with mild learning difficulty presented with eye symptoms, headache and shoulder pains. She was found to have bilateral posterior scleritis secondary to giant cell arteritis. Posterior scleritis is a potentially blinding condition, with ambiguous symptoms and signs, therefore diagnosis is commonly delayed. This patient was seen in General Practice as well as in Accident and E…
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- Updates on the Diagnosis and Management of Glaucoma. [Review]
- Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness throughout the world (after cataracts); therefore, general physicians should be familiar with the diagnosis and management of affected patients. Glaucomas are usually categorized by the anatomy of the anterior chamber angle (open vs narrow/closed), rapidity of onset (acute vs chronic), and major etiology (primary vs secondary). Most glaucomas are primary…
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- Age-Related Changes in Dynamic Iris Behavior Assessed Using a Programmable Closed-Loop Iris Control System. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: A programmable closed-loop iris control system can modulate dynamic iris behavior and maintain the iris in a mid-dilated position. Pupillary constriction velocity and iris activity in the mid-dilated position decrease with age.
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- COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Ocular Adverse Effects: An Overview. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: Evidence regarding the ocular adverse effects does not outweigh the benefits of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with pre-existing systemic or ophthalmic diseases. This review provides insights into the possible temporal association between reported ocular adverse events and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines; however, further investigations are required to identify the link between potential causality and pathological mechanisms.
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- Ocular morphologic traits in the American Cocker Spaniel may confer primary angle closure glaucoma susceptibility. [Journal Article]
- Acute primary angle closure glaucoma is a potentially blinding ophthalmic emergency requiring prompt treatment to lower the elevated intraocular pressure in humans and dogs. The PACG in most of canine breeds is epidemiologically similar to humans with older and female patients overrepresented with the condition. The American Cocker Spaniel (ACS) is among the most common breeds observed with PACG …
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- StatPearls: Posner Schlossman Syndrome [BOOK]StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing: Treasure Island (FL)BOOK
- Posner and Schlossman first published a series of nine patients with the characteristic presentation of unique glaucoma, with open anterior angles of the anterior chamber, associated with unilateral acute elevations in intraocular pressure (IOP) in 1948.[1][2] This disease later became known as the Posner Schlossman syndrome (PSS). PSS is also called the glaucomatocyclitic crisis.[3] It is a unil…
- [BILATERAL OCULAR PLASMACYTOMA PRESENTING AS ACUTE ANTERIOR UVEITIS]. [Case Reports]Harefuah. 2022 Oct; 161(10):606-610.H
- CONCLUSIONS: Extramedullary plasmacytoma rarely involves ocular structures. In the setting of systemic malignancy, ocular involvement should be considered, especially when acute inflammation is recalcitrant to therapy.
- Cyclodialysis Clefts following Microinvasive Glaucoma Surgery with Consecutive Intraocular Pressure Spikes. [Case Reports]
- The purpose of this study is to report a case of cyclodialysis clefts associated with microinvasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) having two distinct consecutive IOP spikes during cleft closure. A 65-year-old female with a history of primary open angle glaucoma was evaluated for right eye blurry vision since cataract surgery 11 months prior. She reported a MIGS procedure that resulted in a cyclodialysi…
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- [Anatomical and morphometric features of anterior eye segment structures in hyperopia and the risk of developing primary angle-closure glaucoma]. [Journal Article]Vestn Oftalmol. 2022; 138(5):22-28.VO
- CONCLUSIONS: Significant differences in terms of LT, peripheral AC depth and AC volume were found between age-comparable (41-50 years old) healthy individuals with short eyes and patients with initial PACG. In 11% of the eyes of healthy patients with hyperopia aged 21 to 40 years, there was a combination of two or three of the studied morphometric signs, which may indicate the risk of developing PACG.
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- Evaluations of aqueous humor protein markers in different types of glaucoma. [Journal Article]
- To compare the concentrations of protein markers in aqueous humor (AH) of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), chronic angle-closure glaucoma (CACG), acute primary angle closure (APAC), and cataract without glaucoma as the control group. AH samples were collected at the beginning of surgery from 82 eyes of 82 patients who were divided into POAG (n = 23), CACG (n = 21), APAC (n = 19),…
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- Anterior segment pars plana vitrectomy combined with posterior capsulorhexis, phacoemulsification and trabeculectomy in treatment of medically uncontrolled acute primary angle-closure glaucoma: A retrospective study. [Journal Article]
- To explore the clinical efficacy of quadruple surgery (anterior segment pars plana vitrectomy + phacoemulsification + posterior capsulorhexis + intraocular lens (IOL) implantation + trabeculectomy) and dual surgery (phacoemulsification + IOL implantation + trabeculectomy) to treat medically uncontrolled acute primary angle-closure glaucoma (APACG). The clinical data of 44 patients (45 eyes) with …
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- Perioperative Care of the Patient with Eye Pathologies Undergoing Nonocular Surgery. [Journal Article]
- The authors reviewed perioperative ocular complications and implications of ocular diseases during nonocular surgeries. Exposure keratopathy, the most common perioperative eye injury, is preventable. Ischemic optic neuropathy, the leading cause of perioperative blindness, has well-defined risk factors. The incidence of ischemic optic neuropathy after spine fusion, but not cardiac surgery, has bee…
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- StatPearls: Lens Induced Glaucoma [BOOK]StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing: Treasure Island (FL)BOOK
- Lens-induced glaucoma (LIG) was originally described by Gifford in 1900 as glaucoma associated with hyper-mature senile cataracts (HMSC). Von Ruess independently described LIG as glaucoma with spontaneous absorption of lens matter through an intact capsule.[1] The literature has a multitude of similar entities described over the decades. LIG is secondary glaucoma mimicking acute angle-closure gla…
- Association of Drugs With Acute Angle Closure. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Results of this case-crossover study suggest a need to consider AAC risk in patients taking any of the 61 drugs found to be associated with AAC.
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- Acute exposure to air pollutants increase the risk of acute glaucoma. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: This case-crossover study provided first-hand evidence that air pollutants, especially PM2.5 and NO2, significantly increased risk of acute glaucoma.
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- [Drug-induced acute angle closure glaucoma]. [Journal Article]Rev Med Liege. 2022 Sep; 77(9):516-520.RM
- Acute angle closure glaucoma is an ophthalmic emergency that can lead to blindness in some cases. The presenting signs are often suggestive, like ocular pain and blurred vision accompanied by headache, nausea and vomiting. These symptoms must be recognized as soon as possible, and the patient must be addressed, urgently, to an ophthalmologist for treatment. Many drugs may lead to an acute angle c…
- [Phacoemulsification combined with goniosynechialysis under a gonioscope in the treatment of angle-closure glaucoma: the effect of reopening the synechial anterior chamber angle]. [Journal Article]Zhonghua Yan Ke Za Zhi. 2022 Sep 11; 58(9):701-705.ZY
- A total of 170 consecutive patients (181 eyes) who were diagnosed with primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) and underwent phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation (PEI) combined with goniosynechialysis (GSL) with an instrument under a gonioscope in the Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019 were observed. Anterior chamber angle synechiae o…
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- Gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy in neovascular glaucoma: Salvaging the conventional outflow pathway. [Case Reports]
- CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first reported attempt of an ab interno angle surgery to successfully restore aqueous outflow through the conventional outflow pathway in an eye with acute NVG and partial synechial angle closure. We posit that this can be an effective approach to achieve IOP control in NVG with at least partially open angles, as long as sufficient anti-neovascular treatments are administered until the underlying neovascular drive achieves quiescence.
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