INCREASED PREVALENCE OF OCCLUDABLE ANGLES AND ANGLE-CLOSURE GLAUCOMA IN PATIENTS WITH PSEUDOEXFOLIATION

The association between angle-closure glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation i s controversial. We retrospectively studied the angle configurations o f 54 patients with pseudoexfoliation and found gonioscopically occluda ble angles in five cases (9.3%). We also analyzed the data from severa l large studies of pseudoexfoliation patients and found an increased p revalence of acute angle-closure glaucoma in this group. These data su ggest that pseudoexfoliation patients may represent a high-risk popula tion for the development of angle-closure glaucoma.