Uvea and Glaucoma

Signs and Symptoms Patients with angle recession glaucoma are typically asymptomatic, unless the disease is advanced with profound visual field or fixation loss or intraocular...

Signs and Symptoms Uveitis may be noted in individuals of any age, but is most commonly encountered in those between 20 and 60 years of...

Signs and Symptoms Choroidal folds can occur in any patient regardless of age, race or sex. Patients may report visual acuity reduction though in many...

Signs and Symptoms Both choroidal nevi and choroidal melanomas represent space-occupying masses of the uveal tract. Choroidal nevi appear as round or oval, flat or...

Choroidal rupture is a possible consequence following blunt trauma directly to the eye. Patients developing choroidal rupture are often younger males who are involved in activities such as ball sports that expose them to high-speed impact to the eye or adnexa.

Signs and Symptoms While subluxation of the crystalline lens can occur in any patient, there are primarily three situations in which it is encountered: The first...

Signs and Symptoms Due to its numerous potential routes of inoculation, endophthalmitis has no typical age, gender or racial predilection. Patients often manifest pain and...

Signs and Symptoms Exfoliation syndrome and exfoliative glaucoma occur in high rates throughout northern Finland, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain and Greece. The condition has...

Signs and Symptoms Patients with Fuchs’ heterochromic iridocyclitis present as young adults with variable vision loss, anterior chamber reaction and iris heterochromia.1-3 There appears to...

Signs and Symptoms The initial precipitating event in glaucomatocyclitic crisis (GCC) is the acute onset of a mild, self-limiting uveitis followed by a disproportionately large...

Signs and Symptoms Herpetic keratouveitis, as the name implies, manifests anterior uveitis and some form of keratopathy in the presence, or with a history, of...

Signs and Symptoms Malignant glaucoma, also referred to as aqueous misdirection syndrome or ciliary block glaucoma, occurs without racial or gender predilection.1-6 Patients typically have...

Signs and Symptoms Metastatic tumors of the choroid may present with an assortment of signs and symptoms. Commonly, patients complain of visual symptoms such as...

Signs and Symptoms Patients typically develop “milky” nuclear sclerotic cataracts at an earlier age than other forms of lens opacification. The onset is often unilateral...

Signs and Symptoms Pediatric glaucoma is a term that includes any form of glaucoma that presents between birth and age 18 years.1,2 Pediatric glaucomas can...

Signs and Symptoms Phacoanaphylaxis is a term used to describe inflammation caused by the crystalline lens. Depending upon the clinical etiology, sequelae and area of...

Phacolytic glaucoma is a secondary glaucoma caused by an autoimmune inflammation due to a hypermature cataract that is leaking lens proteins. It typically develops in elderly patients with a history of progressively worsening vision from hypermaturing cataracts.

Patients presenting with phacomorphic glaucoma are typically elderly, female and of small stature with moderate hyperopia. Frequently, an advanced cataract will be present in the affected eye.

Signs and Symptoms Pigment dispersion syndrome (PDS) is an asymptomatic disorder typically discovered upon routine evaluation.1 Pigmentary glaucoma (PG), a sequela of pigment dispersion syndrome,...

Signs and Symptoms Patients with plateau iris syndrome tend to be younger, typically ranging in age from 30 to 50 years, with a female predilection.1...

Signs and Symptoms Posterior uveitis is an encompassing term indicating inflammation of the posterior segment. The inflammation may be posterior, intermediate or pan-ocular. As the...

The patient with primary chronic angle closure glaucoma (PCACG) typically is older and asymptomatic. Women are more commonly affected than men. Typically patients will have moderate degrees of hyperopia.

Signs and Symptoms Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) are typically older, with men more likely to be affected than women.1-3 People of African ancestry...

Signs and Symptoms Uveal effusion glaucoma results in intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation from non-pupil block secondary angle closure. It arises from numerous causes; hence, there...

Patients with uveitic glaucoma typically fall into one of two categories: those that develop acute anterior uveitis replete with pain, photophobia and lacrimation, and those experiencing lesser symptoms from chronic uveitis.