Topiramate induced secondary angle closure glaucoma

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......vision, acute secondary-angle closure glaucoma, nystagmus and diplopia...Topiramate induced secondary angle closure glaucoma that responded dramatically...A diagnosis of secondary angle closure glaucoma was made. She was started...

Don't be blind to glaucoma risk factors.(Triad)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  January 10, 2006 ;     695 words ......most common type of glaucoma, primary open angle glaucoma, is hereditary. If members of your...Asian descent appear to be at some risk for angle closure glaucoma. Angle closure glaucoma accounts for less than 10 percent of all diagnosed...

Glaucoma: Our role in reducing the burden of blindness

Journal of the National Medical Association;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......produce symptoms, except in the rarer form of angle closure glaucoma in which patients may have eye pain, headache...colored rings around lights during an attack of angle closure glaucoma. Since there are generally no early warning symptoms...

Patient has pain, redness, photophobia OS for 1 week

Ophthalmology Times;  December 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Angle closure glaucoma diagnosed in 25-year-old HIV-positive woman Grand Rounds Editors...referred by a community ophthalmologist with a diagnosis of acute angle closure glaucoma. The patient was a poor historian, but described a sudden onset...

Laser iridoplasty helps with angle-closure glaucoma

Ophthalmology Times;  May 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......technique for treating certain cases of angle-closure glaucoma, noted Robert Ritch, MD. Argon laser peripheral...a range of spot settings, he continued. Angle-closure glaucoma Angle-closure glaucoma is an anatomic disorder in which the iris...

Good vision likely in eye unaffected by acute angle closure

Ophthalmology Times;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......suffered an acute attack of primary angle closure (APAC), the contralateral eye appears...health-care system. Furthermore, acute angle closure is expected to be much more common...increase in the incidence of acute angle closure is the aging of the world's populations...

UBM helps in assessment of angle-closure glaucoma

Ophthalmology Times;  March 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......and management of angle-closure glaucoma during the American...York, reviewed the angle-closure glaucomas, explaining...These forms of angle closure are not mutually exclusive...common mechanism of angle closure, is responsible for...

Combined phaco-GSL procedure treats angle closure

Ophthalmology Times;  March 1, 1998 ;     371 words ......the treatment of uncontrolled angle-closure glaucoma, said Chaiwat Teekhasaenee, MD...consecutive patients with uncontrolled angle-closure glaucoma. Procedures were performed within...weeks after the acute attack of angle closure.

Ultrasound biomicroscopy is highlighted at ARVO

Ophthalmology Times;  July 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ......to the development of angle closure. Esaki et al. (New York...representing the change of the angle opening distance along...play an important role in angle closure and that UBM must be performed...dark room conditions if angle-closure glaucoma is to be detected. ...

Lens extraction may be treatment of choice for angle-closure glaucoma

Ophthalmology Times;  March 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......for some cases of chronic angle-closure glaucoma, according to Erik L. Greve...with subacute or chronic angle-closure glaucoma than trabeculectomy followed...trabeculectomy for acute primary angle-closure glaucoma for up to 22 months. "Collectively...

NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY ENCOURAGES EYE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 24, 2007 ;     571 words ......structure of the optic nerve." There are two main forms of glaucoma that affect adults, angle closure glaucoma and open angle glaucoma. Angle closure glaucoma, the less common form, occurs when the fluid drainage system in the eye is obstructed...

15 pearls to consider when patient reports eye pain

Ophthalmology Times;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......pain in the "quiet" eye. 1. Patients with intermittent angle closure may have pain episodes lasting minutes to hours and the...a shallow anterior chamber angle. Always consider acute angle closure glaucoma in patients with severe, especially acute, head pain localized...

New guidelines aim to cut glaucoma-related blindness.(Health)

Manila Bulletin;  December 28, 2003 ;     603 words ......suffer from the highest rates of blindness in the world caused by a relatively common form of glaucoma, primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG). New guidelines launched recently by the South East Asia Glaucoma Interest Group (SEAGIG) at the 19th...

Cataract surgery helpful in angle-closure glaucoma

Ophthalmology Times;  August 15, 2001 ;     365 words ......may benefit patients with angle-closure glaucoma by significantly reducing...a study of 74 eyes with angle-closure glaucoma and 68 eyes with openangle...groups. The mean IOP in the angle-closure glaucoma group dropped from 21.4...

Web site explains angle-closure, glaucoma in children

Ophthalmology Times;  March 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......to assist understanding of glaucoma. VI. Angle-closure glaucoma Angle-closure glaucoma affects nearly half a million people in...this space becomes completely blocked, an angle-closure glaucoma attack (acute glaucoma) results. A. Acute...