The intraocular pressures of a total of 1015 eyes of leprous patients who never had ophthalmological care or local eye treatment were measured. The patients were categorised according to the type of leprosy they had the eyes were categorised as without or with chronic plastic iridocyclitis. In patients with the tuberculoid and lepromatous types of leprosy the intraocular pressure was significantly lower in eyes with chronic plastic iridocyclitis than in unaffected eyes. It has been shown that chronic plastic iridocyclitis which remains untreated for many years results in significantly lower intraocular pressure.
BT - The British journal of ophthalmology C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7195278?dopt=Abstract DA - 1981 Apr DO - 10.1136/bjo.65.4.240 IS - 4 J2 - Br J Ophthalmol LA - eng N2 -The intraocular pressures of a total of 1015 eyes of leprous patients who never had ophthalmological care or local eye treatment were measured. The patients were categorised according to the type of leprosy they had the eyes were categorised as without or with chronic plastic iridocyclitis. In patients with the tuberculoid and lepromatous types of leprosy the intraocular pressure was significantly lower in eyes with chronic plastic iridocyclitis than in unaffected eyes. It has been shown that chronic plastic iridocyclitis which remains untreated for many years results in significantly lower intraocular pressure.
PY - 1981 SP - 240 EP - 2 T2 - The British journal of ophthalmology TI - Influence of untreated chronic plastic iridocyclitis on intraocular pressure in leprous patients. UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1039490/pdf/brjopthal00184-0034.pdf VL - 65 SN - 0007-1161 ER -