Exfoliation syndrome in enucleated haemorrhagic and absolute glaucoma.
Occurrence of exfoliation syndrome was studied in 172 eyes enucleated for haemorrhagic and absolute glaucoma in 1962-82, using histopathological techniques. Exfoliation was found in 33% of haemorrhagic glaucoma cases and in 22% of absolute glaucoma. In patients over 70, exfoliation was found in 53% of the haemorrhagic cases and in 46% of the absolute glaucoma cases. Capsular glaucoma may provoke haemorrhagic glaucoma and may lead to blindness and enucleation of eye with or without vascular catastrophe.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005130:Eye Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome