ACUTE ANGLE-CLOSURE GLAUCOMA: THE SECOND EYE: AN ANALYSIS OF 200 CASES

Abstract

of The Royal Victoriani Eye and Ear Hospital, 240 cases of angle-closure glaucoma were docu- mented. Cases were drawn from the 1950 to 1961 cross-indexed history files of the hospital, to which were added a few cases seen in private practice during that time. The hospital patients included public and intermediate (semi-private) classes. New cases presenting during 1961 were personally examined and old patients were requested to attend for a research interview and tests. Many could not be traced or were deceased, but usually their case records, although very incomplete, contained information that could be used in some of the analyses. Some patients attended the hospital during this time only because of the involvement of the second eye, and the first eye might have suffered an acute attack many years previously, so that in such cases the time period extends over more than 10 years.