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Abstract #6330 Published in IGR 3-2

Exercise and iris concavity in healthy eyes

Haargaard B; Koch Jensen P; Kessing SV; Nissen OI
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica 2001; 79: 277-282


PURPOSE: To study the effect of exercise on the configuration of the anterior chamber angle in healthy persons. METHODS: Both eyes of 22 healthy persons were scanned by ultrasound biomicroscopy. Before and after ten minutes of exercise, the anterior chamber angle and the area of the peripheral anterior chamber were measured on the scans. RESULTS: After exercise, the anterior chamber angle/peripheral area increased in all eyes due to changes in the iris configuration. The myopic group showed the largest change. CONCLUSIONS: Reverse pupillary block (iris concavity) is not pathognomonic in pigmentary glaucoma, it occurs in all normal eyes after exercise, and is most pronounced in myopics. Consequently, the difference between physiological and pathological reverse pupillary block has to be clarified.

Dr B. Haargaard, Glaucoma Clinic, E 2064, The Center of Head and Orthopaedics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark


Classification:

2.8 Iris (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
9.4.3.1 Pigmentary glaucoma (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders > 9.4.3 Glaucomas associated with disorders of the iris and ciliary body)



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