| Abstract: | Between July 1, 1980 and December 31, 1982, out of 26 825 patients treated in both the outpatient and inpatient departments at the University Eye Clinic of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 107 (i.e., 0.4%) were found to have pseudo-exfoliation syndrome. In 51 cases only one eye was affected, in 56 cases both. Of these patients 49 were male and 58 female. They were between 54 and 89 years old, the average age being 73.2 years. In 61.3% of the cases the initial symptom was ocular hypertension. In about 75% the most important finding on slit-lamp examination, with the pupil undilated, was atrophy of the pupillary margin. A central disc was only seen in 39.3%, while the peripheral band was present in all cases. Fistulating operations had to be performed in 43 out of 100 cases diagnosed as having capsular glaucoma. This corresponds to 18.5% of all fistulating procedures performed for primary chronic open-angle glaucoma. |
