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[High intraocular pressure and open angle glaucoma].

Purpose: To study the correlation between high intraocular pressure and the primitive glaucoma with opened angle among beninese patients.

Method: Our study was accomplished in the ophtalmological department of the university national hospital center of Cotonou. It was retrospective with descriptive and analytical aim and extended over a period of 3 years going from January 1st, 2007 till December 31st, 2009.

[Survey of medical treatment in primary open-angle glaucoma].

Purpose: To survey patient understanding of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and difficulties associated with medical treatment of POAG patients, to determine patient compliance rates with medical therapy, to study factors influencing compliance rates, and to formulate suggestions to improve patient compliance.

Patients And Methods: Our descriptive prospective study was carried out at the ophthalmology clinic of the Hubert K. Maga national university medical center and in the "La Lumière" ophthalmology clinic in Cotonou, from January 5 through April 25, 2009.

[Therapeutics of primary open-angle glaucoma in Cotonou: a series of 224 cases].

Aims: To determine POAG features and evaluate topical management in Cotonou, Benin, in order to suggest therapeutic diagrams adapted to local therapeutic conditions.

Patients And Method: This was a retrospective, longitudinal study with cross-sectional collection of data from subjects with POAG who were admitted to the CNHU and Bethesda Hospital ophthalmologic center in Cotonou, Benin, from 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2008.

Results: Visual acuity higher than 6/10 improved from the first consultation (47.

[Ocular contusions at the Cotonou, Benin, National University Hospital. A series of 654 cases].

Aim: To specify the epidemiologic characteristics of ocular contusions, take an inventory of etiological factors, and study clinical aspects.

Patients And Methods: This study was a retrospective, descriptive and analytical study. We carried out an exhaustive recruitment among the consultations in the ophthalmologic department at the Cotonou National University Hospital from 1st January 2006 to 30 April 2009 of all the patients with the ocular diagnosis of contusion.