title: Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy associated with nonneovascular chronic angle-closure glaucoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Cases of angle-closure glaucoma in patients with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy have been reported secondary to neovascularization of the anterior segment. Cases secondary to nonneovascular mechanisms have not been previously reported.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two cases are presented of angle-closure glaucoma as a result of a nonneovascular mechanism.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Neovascularization was found to be a very unlikely explanation for the angle closure in these two cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There may be an association between familial exudative vitreoretinopathy and angle-closure glaucoma as a direct result of a retrolental process or more likely a relative lens-iris pupillary block with a large lens.
authors.affiliation: Glaucoma Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Jefferson Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azuara-Blanco
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Pesin
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Michael
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Tasman
mesh_terms: D000869:Anterior Eye Segment / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005122:Exudates and Transudates; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015812:Glaucoma, Angle-Closure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D014822:Vitreous Body