Efficacy of laser trabeculoplasty in phakic and pseudophakic patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.

Background And Objective: To compare the efficacy of laser trabeculoplasty in pseudophakic and phakic patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).

Patients And Methods: Retrospective comparative case-control series of 42 eyes (21 pseudophakic eyes and 21 phakic eyes of patients matched for age and gender) with POAG not controlled using medical therapy and treated with laser trabeculoplasty. Success was reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) of at least 3 mm Hg from baseline and no additional glaucoma surgery or laser treatment.

Orbital pseudotumor in a child with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

We report a child with persistent fevers, arthritis, and parvoviral infection who subsequently developed unilateral orbital pseudotumor, lytic bone lesions, bilateral anterior uveitis, band keratopathy, and migratory polyarthritis. Our working diagnosis was systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, although pseudotumor of the orbit and lytic bone lesions are not found in this disease.