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FREQUENCY OF CAPSULAR GLAUCOMA IN CENTRAL FINLAND
Author(s) -
KRAUSE ULF
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1973.tb03800.x
Subject(s) - glaucoma , pseudoexfoliation , medicine , open angle glaucoma , ophthalmology
In a hospital series of 222 consecutive glaucoma cases in Central Finland, senile open angle glaucoma was observed in 137 patients (61.7 %>. Simple glaucoma was present in 79 (35.6 %>) of these, capsular glaucoma in 58 (26.1 %). The simple glaucomas constituted 57.7% and the capsular glaucomas 42.3 % of the senile open angle glaucomas. The proportion of capsular glaucoma clearly grew with increasing age and constituted 61.5% in the oldest age group (80–89 years). Capsular glaucoma was diagnosed at a mean age of 67.9 years, simple glaucoma 7.3 years earlier. Despite the fact that pseudoexfoliation of the lens is more frequent in Finland than in Norway, the capsular glaucomas constitute about 40 % of the hospitalized senile open angle glaucomas in both countries.