Angle-closure: risk factors, diagnosis and treatment

N Amerasinghe, T Aung - Progress in brain research, 2008 - Elsevier
Introduction: Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) is the leading cause of blindness in
East Asia. The disease can be classified into primary angle-closure suspect, primary angle …

Primary angle closure glaucoma in Chinese and Western populations

N Wang, H Wu, Z Fan - Chinese medical journal, 2002 - mednexus.org
Objective To review the major progress in primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG).
Methods Contents of this article were selected from the original papers or reviews related to …

Angle closure and angle‐closure glaucoma: what we are doing now and what we will be doing in the future

DS Friedman, PJ Foster, T Aung… - Clinical & experimental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Primary angle‐closure glaucoma (PACG) frequently leads to severe vision loss. Prevalence
among older Asian populations is high and given global demographics, the number of …

Angle-closure glaucoma in East Asian and European people. Different diseases?

M He, PJ Foster, GJ Johnson, PT Khaw - Eye, 2006 - nature.com
In contrast to the pattern of disease in Europeans, primary angle closure has a higher
prevalence and tends to be asymptomatic in East Asians. The higher prevalence is …

New findings in the diagnosis and treatment of primary angle-closure glaucoma

G Marchini, F Chemello, D Berzaghi… - Progress in Brain Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Glaucoma is the second cause of blindness worldwide. In the next years, approximately one-
fourth of all glaucoma cases will be angle-closure types. Older age, female sex, and Asian …

Prevalence and characteristics of primary angle-closure diseases in a rural adult Chinese population: the Handan Eye Study

Y Liang, DS Friedman, Q Zhou… - … & visual science, 2011 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of primary angle-closure suspect
(PACS), primary angle closure (PAC), and primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) in a …

Angle closure in the Andhra Pradesh eye disease study

S Senthil, C Garudadri, RC Khanna, K Sannapaneni - Ophthalmology, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and associated risk factors for primary angle-
closure glaucoma (PACG), primary angle closure (PAC), and primary angle-closure …

[HTML][HTML] Primary angle closure glaucoma: what we know and what we don't know

X Sun, Y Dai, Y Chen, DY Yu, SJ Cringle… - Progress in retinal and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) is a common cause of blindness. Angle closure is
a fundamental pathologic process in PAGC. With the development of imaging devices for the …

Multiple patterns of angle closure mechanisms in primary angle closure glaucoma in Chinese

N Wang, J Ouyang, W Zhou, M Lai, T Ye… - [Zhonghua yan ke za …, 2000 - europepmc.org
Objective The mechanism of primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) in Chinese is studied
to establish a new classification system based on the etiology and mechanism of angle …

Primary angle‐closure glaucoma: an update

C Wright, MA Tawfik, M Waisbourd… - Acta …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Primary angle‐closure glaucoma is potentially a devastating disease, responsible for half of
glaucoma‐related blindness worldwide. Angle closure is characterized by appositional …