Increased choroidal thickness in primary angle closure measured by swept-source optical coherence tomography in Caucasian population.

Purpose: A role of the choroid has been suggested in the pathophysiology of angle closure. We assessed the choroidal thickness (CT) in Caucasian patients with primary angle closure (PAC) and in a subgroup of patients with plateau iris using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) compared to normal eyes.

Methods: This prospective cohort study in a hospital-based population in a tertiary center compared consecutive patients with PAC to healthy controls.

Nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy: a 6-year retrospective study.

Purpose: Nonpenetrating trabeculectomy, also called nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy (NPDS), is a filtering surgery where the internal wall of Schlemm's canal is excised, allowing subconjunctival filtration without actually entering the anterior chamber. This, technique was developed to minimize the complications of trabeculectomy. The authors investigated its safety and efficacy in a retrospective noncomparative study.

[Scoring system for chronic open glaucoma].

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate a scoring system for chronic open-angle glaucoma. We devised an empirical scoring system grading severity of the disease and correlated this with treatment.

Material: and methods: Ninety patients were evaluated on 11 parameters: 1) Family history of glaucoma: blindness (2), yes (1) no (1); 2) Age: infantile (4), juvenile (4); 3) Race: Caucasian (0), Asian (1), Afro-Caribbean (2); 4) Myopia: 0-6 diopters (1), 6-12 diopters (2),>12 diopters (3); 5) Pigment dispersion or pseudoexfoliation (1); 6) Intraocular pressure without treatment:>30 mmHg (4); 25-30 mmHg (3), 20-25 mmHg (2); 7) Corneal central thickness:<500 micro m (3),>500 micro m (0); 8) Optic disc appearance: suspect (1), pathological (4); 9) Visual field defect: early (1), moderate (3), advanced (5); 10) Vascular risk factors: yes (1), no (0); 11) Loss of eyesight in one eye due to glaucoma (4).

Non-penetrating deep sclerectomy (NPDS) with or without collagen device (CD) in primary open-angle glaucoma: middle-term retrospective study.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the middle-term tonometric results of a new filtering procedure, the nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy with or without collagen device, in primary open-angle glaucoma. This technic aims to eliminate or minimize the complications of classical trabeculectomy.

Method: This procedure was carried out by Koslov and colleagues.

[Non-penetrating deep sclerectomy combined with a collagen implant in primary open-angle glaucoma. Medium-term retrospective results].

Purpose: To evaluate the middle term tonometric results of a new filtering procedure, the non penetrating deep sclerectomy with collagen device, in primary open-angle glaucoma. This technique aims to eliminate or minimize the complications of classical trabeculectomy.

Material And Method: This procedure has been developed by Koslov et al.

Daunorubicin versus 5-fluoro-uracil in surgical treatment of primary open angle glaucoma: a prospective study.

In a prospective randomized study, we compare the results at 20 months of 5 Fluoro-Uracil and Daunorubicin filtering surgery in two groups of 25 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. For the first group of 14 eyes, 10 injections of 5FU are done and only one subconjunctival preoperative injection of Daunorubicin in the second group of 13 eyes. 5FU group consists of 13 patients: 9 males, 4 females.

X-PERT NCT advanced logic tonometer valuation.

The air pulsed automatic tonometer X-PERT NCT has been tested in hospitals on glaucomatous patients. This new technique avoids direct contact with the patient's eyes and therefore avoids any risk of contamination. The population studied consisted of 118 eyes of 60 patients whose intraocular pressure (I.

[Glaucoma: detection and therapeutic indications].

Glaucoma screening requires a good knowledge of the epidemiology and risk factors of this disease. So, we measure the intraocular pressure, analyse the visual field and examin the optic nerve head by ophtalmoscopy. Other investigations have been described, allowing early treatment.

[Medium-term tonometric results of trabeculectomies performed after trabeculoretraction using an argon laser in chronic primary open-angle glaucoma].

Following unsuccessful Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty (ALT), 93 eyes were tracked for periods of 6 to 42 (mean: 24 months). The total failure rate of 20% is similar to the generally known failure rate of the trabeculectomies. However, failures are more frequent (37%) when trabeculectomy is performed between the second and third month after ALT.

[Treatment of chronic primary open-angle glaucoma. Long-term functional results].

The functional results of the treatment of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) were analysed. A retrospective study was undertaken on 437 eyes from 282 patients (137 women, 145 men) followed in Saint Joseph's Hospital (Paris). The mean follow-up was 9.

[Argon laser trabeculoretraction in chronic open-angle glaucoma with normal pressure. A prospective study on the tonometric and perimetric effect].

A prospective randomised study was undertaken on sixty eyes, thirty five patients, (27 women, 8 men) followed in the Saint-Joseph hospital of Paris, with low tension glaucoma (LTG). The thirty five patients were selected at random and had either an argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT) or received only vascular medications (medial). The first group (ALT) included 29 eyes.

[Trabeculectomy and trabeculo-retraction in the treatment of chronic primary open-angle glaucoma. Long-term tonometric results].

The long term tonometric results of laser (Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty) and surgical (Trabeculectomy and combined-surgery) treatment in Primitive Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma are analysed on 184 eyes by a retrospective study. Three groups of patients are compared: group I: 81 trabeculoplasties followed 4 years, group II: 75 trabeculectomies followed 5 years, group III: 28 combined-surgery (intra-capsular cataract extraction without implantation combined with a trabeculectomy) followed 5 years. For the three groups, reduce of IOP is noted after 6 months but seems less important after 30 months.