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New ophthalmology findings from University Hospital published

Published in Drug Law Weekly, October 30th, 2007

"'. To examine anterior chamber depth (ACD) and anterior chamber angle (ACA) in patients with glaucoma after cataract extraction with an anterior optical coherence tomography (OCT) system," scientists in Jena, Germany report.

"A new commercially available 1310 nm infrared light anterior segment OCT system was used for anterior chamber evaluation. Sixty patients (n=20 with primary open angle glaucoma [POAG], n=20 with angle closure glaucoma [ACG], and n=20 with no known glaucoma as control group) with a mean age of 68.8+/-13.9 years undergoing cataract surgery were enrolled. Before cataract surgery, ACD and ACA of the ACG group were significantly lower compared to the...

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