… clinical studies or meta-analyses. PICO stands for four different potential components of a
clinical question: Patient, Population or Problem; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome. …

… for starting treatments for angle closure probably would change the natural course of this
disease. … In summary, this study provides clinical data for the long-term outcomes after LPI in …

… Therefore, it is highly probable that there are other factors yet unidentified that convert mere
appositional angle closure into synechial angle closure during the course of development of …

… These data reflect a rapidly progressive course with a grim visual prognosis for PACG, once
optic … A clinic-based study found the rate of primary angle closure (gonioscopically verified …

… had an angle closure on gonioscopy and glaucomatous optic neuropathy with a corresponding
VF defect. Angle closure was defined in the presence of an occludable angle in which ≥…

… Full clinical information was collected prospectively and entered into both the patients' clinical
… preoperative history and clinical findings, surgical procedure, postoperative course and all …

… It is a term that describes both a particular configuration of the peripheral iris, and a clinical
syndrome characterized by angle closure occurring in an eye with a patent iridotomy and …

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) prophylaxis
for patients with primary angle-closure suspect (PACS) after 14 years and to identify risk …

… a definitive treatment for secondary angle closure in phacomorphic glaucoma, there is now a
… that by 2020, 20.7 million people will have angle closure glaucoma of whom 5.3 million will …

… However, like POAG and NTG, it can be completely asymptomatic, with appositional closure
of the angle leading in due course to extensive per-ipheral anterior synechiae and raised …