Advanced glaucoma following Nd:YAG capsulotomy: a case report

BACKGROUND: We present a case of aphakic pupil block caused by vitreous prolapse into the anterior chamber following Nd:YAG capsulotomy. CASE PRESENTATION: This resulted in advanced glaucoma in a young patient, which presented a significant clinical management challenge. CONCLUSIONS: Ultimately, at...

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Autores principales: Goudie, Colin, Tatham, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30255795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-018-0852-9
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description BACKGROUND: We present a case of aphakic pupil block caused by vitreous prolapse into the anterior chamber following Nd:YAG capsulotomy. CASE PRESENTATION: This resulted in advanced glaucoma in a young patient, which presented a significant clinical management challenge. CONCLUSIONS: Ultimately, at the time of writing, her intraocular pressure and uveitis were well controlled, however the long-term outcome remains uncertain, given the uncompromising natural history of her complicated ocular condition.
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spelling pubmed-61572442018-10-01 Advanced glaucoma following Nd:YAG capsulotomy: a case report Goudie, Colin Tatham, Andrew BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: We present a case of aphakic pupil block caused by vitreous prolapse into the anterior chamber following Nd:YAG capsulotomy. CASE PRESENTATION: This resulted in advanced glaucoma in a young patient, which presented a significant clinical management challenge. CONCLUSIONS: Ultimately, at the time of writing, her intraocular pressure and uveitis were well controlled, however the long-term outcome remains uncertain, given the uncompromising natural history of her complicated ocular condition. BioMed Central 2018-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6157244/ /pubmed/30255795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-018-0852-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Advanced glaucoma following Nd:YAG capsulotomy: a case report
title_fullStr Advanced glaucoma following Nd:YAG capsulotomy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Advanced glaucoma following Nd:YAG capsulotomy: a case report
title_short Advanced glaucoma following Nd:YAG capsulotomy: a case report
title_sort advanced glaucoma following nd:yag capsulotomy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157244/
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