Background: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome is characterized by the deposition of a distinctive fibrillar material in the anterior segment of the eye. This condition is a major risk factor for development of glaucoma, termed pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEXG). The aim of this study was to describe the characteristic and management of PEXG in the National Eye Center Cicendo Eye Hospital. Methods: A descriptive retrospective study was conducted in October-November 2012 using medical records of PEXG patients in the National Eye Center Cicendo Eye Hospital during January-October 2012. Results: There were 32 patients (43 eyes) diagnosed as PEXG, most of them were male (78.1%), age 70-74 years old (34.4%) and followed by those in the range of age 65-69 years old (21.9%). Most of the cases were unilateral (65.6%) decrease of visual acuity less than 3/60 (76.7%), increase of intraocular pressure (IOP) with majority in the range of 31-40 mmHg (32.6%) and 41-50 mmHg (32.6%), Cup/Disc Ratio 0.9-1.0 (46.51%) and followed by those classified as majority which were hard to assess because of the presence of opaque media (34.89%). The type of glaucoma was open angle glaucoma (88.4%). The treatment received was a combination of two types of antiglaucoma medication and surgery IOP Conclusion: PEXG is mostly found in elderly patients. While most of the patients come with high IOP and late stage of the disease IOP
Introduction: Corneal cross-linking (CXL) is a minimally invasive procedure aiming to haltering corneal ectasia progressivity. Corneal cross-linking are part of a management of keratoconus, infectious keratitis, and bullous keratopathy cases. Purpose: To describe characteristics of patients that underwent corneal cross-linking procedure in National Eye Center - Cicendo Eye Hospital, Bandung. Method: This is a retrospective descriptive study. The data were collected from medical records within the period of October 2019 – August 2020 in Cicendo Eye Hospital. Subjects of the study were patients who underwent corneal cross-linking procedure, divided in three main group CXL keratoconus, PACKCXL, and CXL bullous keratopathy. Results: Forty-six corneal cross-linking procedure was done during the period of this study. Corneal cross-linking was done on 16 eyes of 13 patients with keratoconus, 28 patients with infectious keratitis and on one patient with pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK). The mean age of keratoconus patients was 21.77 ± 4.66, the majority of the patients was mild keratoconus 9 patients (56.25%), 7 patients (43.75%) visual acuity with correction ? 6/18. In infectious keratitis the mean age of the patients was 48.07 ± 17.40, the main risk factor was trauma in 19 patients (67.85%), the most common pathogen was fungus in 15 patients (53.57%) and had blindness visual acuity in 26 patients (92.86%). Patients with PBK experienced a reduction in symptoms. Conclusion: The keratoconus patients are young adults with mild keratoconus requiring correction for visual acuity and the infectious keratitis patients with majority of the pathogens are fungus with blindness visual acuity.
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