Ophthalmic manifestations and management of Sturge-Weber Syndrome in long-term observation

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This article is available in open access under Creative Common Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, allowing to download articles and share them with others as long as they credit the authors and the publisher, but without permission to change them in any way or use them commercially IntroductIonSturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) is a birth set, neuromuscular syndrome. The disease appears as vascular skin lesions, general complaints, and ophthalmic symptoms. They mainly include glaucoma, choroidal hemangioma of the fundus, vascular lesions of the eyelids, and anterior eye segment. Diagnosis and treatment can be difficult. This paper aims to present the course and treatment of SWS for ophthalmic patients in long-term observation. case presentatIon case 1A 16-year-old female was referred to the Glaucoma Outpatient Clinic (GOC) due to elevated intraocular pressure in both eyes in applanation tonometry (IOP), up to 26 mm Hg for the right eye and up to 29 for the left eye despite timolol administered 2 times per day. The patient presented port-wine stains (PWS) on the face and neck, noticed after birth. Due to clinical suspicion of SWS,