PHACOLYTIC GLAUCOMA AND LENS-INDUCED UVEITIS

• Tipo: Outra Publicação em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 1993

Autores

FILIPE, JC (Autor) Outra; PALMARES, J (Autor) Outra; DELGADO, L (Autor) FMUP; LOPES, JM (Autor) FMUP; BORGES, J (Autor) Outra; CASTROCORREIA, J (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: International Ophthalmology

Vol. 17

Páginas: 289-293

ISSN: 0165-5701

Editora: Springer Nature

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 8 Citações

Scopus - 12 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências médicas e da saúde > Medicina clínica

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-001-MKR

DOI: 10.1007/bf01007798

Abstract (EN): The pathogenesis of lens-induced uveitis and phacolytic glaucoma is still not fully understood. The authors report a case of a 62-year-old white female, with bilateral lens dislocation into the vitreous, who presented clinical and pathological features of phacolytic glaucoma in the left eye. The ultrastructural study of aqueous and vitreous aspirates showed lenticular fragments and macrophages with lipofuscin granules and phagocytic vacuoles containing lens proteins. Immunocytochemistry revealed foamy macrophages immunoreactive for CD68 and HLA-DR. One year later the right eye disclosed a mild anterior granulomatous uveitis with corneal mutton-fat keratic precipitates that remained unchanged in the course of sixteen months follow-up without further treatment. These findings corroborate the possibility that, besides their mechanical and inflammatory roles in the impairment of the outflow system of the (exciting) left eye, phacolytic macrophages might also have been involved in the afferent phase of the mild chronic uveitis df the (fellow) right eye.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 5