Is preoperative ciliary body and iris anatomical configuration a predictor of malignant glaucoma development?

Background: To investigate anatomical configuration of ciliary body and iris using ultrasound biomicroscopy as a predictor of malignant glaucoma development.

Design: Retrospective study in a tertiary care hospital.

Participants: Cohort of 31 consecutive patients diagnosed with post-surgical malignant glaucoma.

Comparisons of anterior segment biometry between Chinese and Caucasians using anterior segment optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To compare anterior segment parameters between eyes of Chinese and Caucasians using anterior segment optical coherence tomography and to evaluate the association between these parameters and anterior chamber angle width between the two ethnic groups.

Methods: 60 Chinese and 60 Caucasians, 30 with open angles and 30 with narrow angles (defined as Shaffer grade < or =2 in > or =3 quadrants during dark room gonioscopy) in each group, were consecutively enrolled. One eye of each subject was randomly selected for imaging in a completely darkened room.

Bilateral Descemet membrane detachment after canaloplasty.

We report a case of bilateral Descemet membrane detachment (DMD) after canaloplasty in a 70-year-old Portuguese man with primary open-angle glaucoma. The patient developed bilateral DMD immediately following consecutive (1 week apart) canaloplasty surgery in both eyes. Slitlamp biomicroscopy, gonioscopy, and Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) findings are described.