EXFOLIATION SYNDROME IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES II. CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENT POPULATION AND CLINICAL COURSE
| Autor: | Shields Mb, Crittendon Jj |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Eye Diseases genetic structures Referral Glaucoma Exfoliation syndrome Sex Factors Anterior Eye Segment Humans Medicine Exfoliation (botany) Aged business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Age Factors Clinical course Mean age Syndrome General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease United States eye diseases Surgery Ophthalmology Patient population Lens Diseases Female sense organs business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Acta Ophthalmologica. 66:103-106 |
| ISSN: | 1755-375X |
| Popis: | Fifty-three patients with the exfoliation syndrome, seen at the Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, were characterized by a mean age of 71.3 years, a predilection toward women (38:15), and a marked preponderance of whites to blacks (51:2). There were 31 unilateral and 22 bilateral cases on the initial exam, with glaucoma in 62 of the 75 eyes with exfoliation, as well as 15 of the fellow, non-exfoliation eyes. The incidence of glaucoma is undoubtedly skewed, since the patients were from a glaucoma referral practice. Twenty-four patients were followed from six months to ten years, with a mean of three years, during which time four patients progressed from unilateral to bilateral exfoliation and five more patients acquired glaucoma in eyes with the exfoliation syndrome. The glaucoma associated with the exfoliation syndrome was typically difficult to treat with a high percentage of patients requiring multiple medications or surgical intervention. |
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