title: Posner-Schlossman syndrome (glaucomatocyclitic crisis).
abstract: Posner-Schlossman syndrome (PSS) or glaucomatocyclitic crisis is a rare, typically unilateral recurrent inflammatory ocular hypertensive disease in which diagnosis can be challenging. An acute elevation of intraocular pressure is accompanied by or followed within a few days by a mild, often symptomless uveal inflammation. The mild nature of the uveitis at presentation of the first attack may go undetected. Medical treatment is indicated to prevent pressure-related optic nerve damage and to reduce inflammation. This report details a patient with Posner-Schlossman syndrome whose unilateral pressure elevation was initially treated as acute angle-closure glaucoma. He subsequently had several episodes of increased pressure over a two-year period. Diagnostic difficulties in this case are discussed.
authors.affiliation: rverde@ozemail.com.au
authors.forename: Ralph J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005902:Glaucoma, Open-Angle / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D015863:Iridocyclitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013577:Syndrome