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Cesk Oftalmol
January 1993
Ocní klinika lékarské fakulty UK, Plzen.
This paper deals with the relation of disorders of carbohydrate metabolism to etiopathogenesis of glaucoma. 102 patients with primary glaucoma of an open angle were examined and it was discovered that 80 patients from this group (78%) had an abnormal immuno-reactive insulin curve, in particular of the hypersecretory type. Standard gauge test for abnormal glucose level was administered with 31 glaucomatous patients (30%).
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September 1988
Department of Ophthalmology, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Thirty-one cases of epidemic dropsy with raised intraocular pressure were studied. Glaucoma was bilateral in all, with open angles and no signs of anterior segment inflammation. The outflow facility was unimpaired (C value, 0.
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