Diabetes and primary open angle glaucoma patients
Severity of primary open-angle glaucoma in patients with hypertension and diabetes
... Another theory postulates that in diabetic eyes, there is remodeling of the connective tissue of the optic nerve head. This might reduce compliance at the trabecular meshwork and also in the lamina cribrosa, resulting in ...
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Clinical study of primary open angle glaucoma in diabetic patients
... SUMMARY Primary Open Angle Glaucoma is characterized by its adult onset, IOP > 21mm Hg at some point in the course of the disease, open normal angle, glaucomatous optic nerve ...
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Hepcidin Prohormone Levels in Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma
... that glaucoma medication causes the concentration of Hep to be ...that glaucoma patients generally ...of glaucoma eyes might account for the observed differences in Hep ...
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Down-regulation of OPA1 in patients with primary open angle glaucoma.
... The patients reported here have clinically definite POAG with a modest, statistically significant decrease in OPA1 expression even after normalization for expression of HBB, a housekeeping ...
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Analysis of macular volume and thickness in primary open angle glaucoma suspects and patients with primary open angle glaucoma using optical coherence tomography
... . Glaucoma is a complex multifactorial disorder characterized by a typical pattern of optic nerve damage and visual field loss that is usually but not always associated with elevated IOP ...monitoring ...
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Ab interno gel implant in patients with primary open angle glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma
... POAG patients as well as in PXG patients and is almost comparable to that of conven- tional filtrating glaucoma surgery [6], although how- ever, in the absence of a prospective, randomized trial, it ...
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Mitochondrial genetic background in Ghanaian patients with primary open-angle glaucoma
... POAG patients from Accra and Tema with controls from the same ...between patients and controls for all mitochondrial haplogroups ...POAG patients and controls and the little difference in frequency ...
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A study of aqueous humour proteins in patients of primary open angle glaucoma
... Assuming that the 20 kDa protein detected in POAG cases in our study is Hsp 20, we would like to take this hypothesis forward. What we propose is that glaucoma causes conditions of stress, which results in over ...
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Causes of Non-Compliance in Diagnosed Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients
... of patients with glaucoma and are the most common treatment for ...of glaucoma by at least 60%. 9 However, adherence with prescribed glaucoma treatments is notably ...While glaucoma ...
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Effect of caffeine on the intraocular pressure in patients with primary open angle glaucoma
... Coffee is not analogous to caffeine. 49 Therefore, attribut- ing the effects of coffee drinking on IOP elevation solely to coffee’s caffeine content may be misleading, because coffee contains several other ...
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Outcomes of Complex Cataract Surgery in Patients with Primary Open-angle Glaucoma
... 22 Glaucoma patients were found to have constitutively increased levels of IL-1 in response to the increased IOP and when these patients underwent phacoemulsification, IL-1 levels increase even ...
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PRIMARY OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA AND FARMACOECONOMICS - REVIEW
... Abstract: Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is defined as a chronic and progressive ...for glaucoma is intraocular ...of glaucoma can be changed by increased life ex- pectancy, ...
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Optic disc topography in Malay patients with normal-tension glaucoma and primary open-angle glaucoma
... Discussion Table 7 describes the published articles reporting com- parisons of optic disc topography between NTG and POAG patients from Asia; the majority of these studies were carried out in Korea and Japan. ...
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Different WDR36 Mutation Pattern in Chinese Patients with Primary Open-angle Glaucoma
... steroid-induced glaucoma, or exfoliation glaucoma), Shaffer grade III or IV open iridocorneal angle on gonioscopy, and characteristic optic disc damage or typical visual field loss by Humphrey ...
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Study to determine the prevalence of primary open angle glaucoma in patients with systemic hypertension
... DISCUSSION Glaucoma is the most common cause of irreversible blindness in the world and according to WHO estimate, ...many patients experience continued progression of disease despite adequate control of ...
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Investigating the genetics of primary open angle glaucoma in Tasmania
... Table 6.4 - Age and trait distribution statistics from the population ascertainment correction datasets for the quantitative traits and family GTas02 181 Table 6.5 — Age and quantita[r] ...
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Association of systemic factors in primary open angle glaucoma
... Primary congenital glaucoma is characterized by blepharospasm, watering,pain. On examination corneal diameter is increased with corneal edema, haab's striae due to breaks in decemat's membrane. Gonioscopy ...
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A Phenotype of Primary Open-angle Glaucoma With Systemic Vasospasm.
... with glaucoma, 31,32 especially if it is associated with nocturnal ...the patients in our study; patients who did not have a history of low systolic BP had a history of ...
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Association of primary open-angle glaucoma with systemic hypertension
... Included patients underwent detailed ocular and systemic history and detailed examination which included visual acuity by Snellen drum, refraction, intraocular pressure by Schiotz tonometer, gonioscopy using Zeiss ...
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Lack of association between polymorphism rs540782 and primary open angle glaucoma in Saudi patients
... Importantly, glaucoma specific indices, such as intraocular pressure, cup/disc ratio and number of anti-glaucoma medication, also showed no statistically significant effect of genotypes within POAG ...
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