Incidence of acute primary angle-closure glaucoma in Singapore: an island-wide survey

SKL Seah, PJ Foster, PTK Chew, A Jap… - Archives of …, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives: To determine the incidence of acute primary angle-closure glaucoma (APACG)
in Singapore and to identify demographic and meteorological risk factors. Design: A …

Epidemiology of acute primary angle-closure glaucoma in the Hong Kong Chinese population: prospective study.

JS Lai, DT Liu, CC Tham, RT Li, DS Lam - … Xianggang yi xue za zhi/Hong …, 2001 - hub.hku.hk
OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence of acute primary angle-closure glaucoma in the
Hong Kong Chinese population, and to identify risk factors for this condition. DESIGN …

Rates of hospital admissions for primary angle closure glaucoma among Chinese, Malays, and Indians in Singapore

TY Wong, PJ Foster, SKL Seah… - British journal of …, 2000 - bjo.bmj.com
AIM To estimate the rates of hospital admissions for primary angle closure glaucoma
(PACG) in Chinese, Malays, and Indians in Singapore METHODS A population-wide …

The incidence of primary angle-closure glaucoma in Olmsted County, Minnesota

JC Erie, DO Hodge, DT Gray - Archives of Ophthalmology, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives: To determine the incidence of primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) and to
assess the visual out-comes of patients treated for PACG. Design: Population-based …

Prevalence of primary angle closure and primary angle-closure glaucoma in a southwestern rural population of Japan: the Kumejima Study

S Sawaguchi, H Sakai, A Iwase, T Yamamoto, H Abe… - Ophthalmology, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence and ocular biometry of primary angle closure
(PAC) and primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) in a rural population in southwestern …

Epidemiology of angle-closure glaucoma: prevalence, clinical types, and association with peripheral anterior chamber depth in the Egna-Neumarkt Glaucoma Study

L Bonomi, G Marchini, M Marraffa, P Bernardi… - Ophthalmology, 2000 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG), the
frequency of its different clinical presentations, and its association with peripheral anterior …

Long-term clinical course of primary angle-closure glaucoma in an Asian population

Z Alsagoff, T Aung, LPK Ang, PTK Chew - Ophthalmology, 2000 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To study the long-term clinical course of patients with primary angle-closure
glaucoma (PACG). DESIGN: Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series …

Screening techniques for angle‐closure glaucoma in rural Taiwan

NG Congdon, HA Quigley, PT Hung… - Acta …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT 562 residents of Jin Shan aged 40 years and above underwent examinations to
compare the sensitivity and specificity of oblique flashlight, peripheral slit beam and …

Anatomical risk factors in primary angle-closure glaucoma: a ten year follow up survey based on limbal and axial anterior chamber depths in a high risk population

FH Alsbirk - International ophthalmology, 1992 - Springer
A population of 539 persons was examined in 1979, using LCD and ACD estimations acc. to
van Herick et al. and by Haag Streit pachymetry, respectively. ACD had been measured …

Issues in the epidemiology and population-based screening of primary angle-closure glaucoma

N Congdon, F Wang, JM Tielsch - Survey of ophthalmology, 1992 - Elsevier
Among Caucasians, it is well known that 75–95% of primary glaucoma is due to open-angle
glaucoma (POAG), with angle-closure (PACG) comprising only a very small minority of …