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Abstract #24217 Published in IGR 11-3

Congenital glaucoma and thymomegaly: clinical and immunological characteristics

Teplinskaia LE; Khvatova AV; Mazanova EV
Vestnik Oftalmologii 2009; 125: 18-21


A comprehensive examination of children with thymomegaly and congenital glaucoma revealed systemic and local humoral immunological disorders mainly as immunodeficiency, a family history of the disease, susceptibility to infections and allergic diseases, the presence of malformations, severe glaucoma, and a complicated postoperative period, which are suggestive of the defective state of the immune system, which should be kept in mind while making a surgical treatment and using an immunomodulator therapy, by exercising a great caution. Such children require observations by a pediatrician, an oculist, and an immunologist and consultations given by other specialists. LA: Russian


Classification:

9.1.1 Congenital glaucoma, Buphthalmos (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.1 Developmental glaucomas)
9.4.15 Glaucoma in relation to systemic disease (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)



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