SUDDEN INCREASE IN INTRAOCULAR-PRESSURE AS AN INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME

PURPOSE/METHODS: We studied a rare initial manifestation of myelodyspl astic syndrome in an 82-year-old woman who had acute secondary glaucom a in the right eye and mature cataracts in both eyes. RESULTS/CONCLUSI ON: Therapy with glaucoma control medications and cataract extraction in the right eye resulted in expulsive hemorrhage and subsequent enucl eation of the right eye. After cataract extraction, examination of the left eye disclosed a central serous retinal detachment and hemorrhage . Histopathologic analysis of the right eye demonstrated myelocytic an d lymphocytic infiltration.