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Abstract #5340 Published in IGR 1-2
Prone position in a dark room test x pilocarpine 2% associated with phenilephrine 10% eye drops test. Comparative study in contralateral eyes of patients with unilateral primary angle closure glaucoma
Santiago Malta RFRevista Brasileira de Oftalmologia 1999; 58: 435-443
The fellow eye of 25 patients with unilateral angle closure glaucoma underwent two provocative testes, applied in a mean-time interval of one week each other, the prone position in a dark room and the pilocarpine 2% associated with phenilephrine 10% eye drops. The objective of the study was to compare the effect of these two tests on those eyes. The author observed an increase of the intraocular pressure with both tests, the increase being greater with the eye drops test. There was not a statically significant difference between the positive and negative results with both tests. It has to be stressed that when one test showed a negative result, there was a great probability of the other one to be also negative.LA: Portuguese
R.F. Santiago Malta, Rua Prof. Arthur Ramos, 183/32, Sao Paulo - SP- CEP: 01454-011; Brazil
Classification:
9.3.1 Acute primary angle closure glaucoma (pupillary block) (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.3 Primary angle closure glaucomas)
