Speaker: Brezhnev Andrei (Russian Federation)
Recently, pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEG) has become of particular interest to researchers due to several factors. In the first place, it is the clinical significance of the disease, which is more severe, with progressive visual functions’ degradation, relative resistance to drug treatment, the nuances of intra- and postoperative periods of glaucoma surgery, etc. stipulating eventually the worst prognosis in comparison with the other forms of glaucomatous process. Epidemiological characteristics of pseudoexfoliative process, allowing enlisting the Central Region of Russian Federation to the areas with a high prevalence of the disease, are of great importance. Finally, we have obtained new data (in particular such fundamental data as genetic, biochemical, immunological, and pathophysiological) representing the specificity of PEG. This allows considering PEG not only as a kind of open-angle glaucoma, but as a special form of the disease requiring, in addition to the standard technologies, the development of qualitatively new specific approaches to the early diagnosis, monitoring, medical and surgical correction.
This report recorded at 11.12.2016 as a part of V international symposium "Controversies in glaucoma: focus on monitoring of various types of glaucoma."
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