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Chronic angle closure glaucoma secondary to frail zonular fibres and spherophakia
Article first published online: 26 SEP 2003
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00129.x
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Asaoka, R., Kato, M., Suami, M., Usami, Y., Hotta, Y. and Sato, M. (2003), Chronic angle closure glaucoma secondary to frail zonular fibres and spherophakia. Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica, 81: 533–535. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00129.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 26 SEP 2003
- Article first published online: 26 SEP 2003
- Received on February 20th, 2003. Accepted on May 22nd, 2003.
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Keywords:
- spherophakia;
- zonular fibres;
- chronic angle closure glaucoma;
- Weil–Marchesani syndrome
Abstract.
Purpose: We describe a 39-year-old Japanese woman with chronic angle closure glaucoma secondary to spherophakia and frail zonular fibres. The patient was 143 cm in height with short fingers and had no family history of eye problems. High intraocular pressure, total optic disc cupping and severe visual field constriction were found in the right eye.
Methods: The patient was treated successfully with trabeculectomy in the right eye and laser iridotomy in the left eye.
Conclusion: The clinical findings imply that this was a borderline case of Weil–Marchesani syndrome.