TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Topical latanoprost causes posterior movement of lens in a patient with exfoliation syndrome and subluxated lens: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Topical latanoprost causes posterior movement of lens in a patient with exfoliation syndrome and subluxated lens: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Topical latanoprost causes posterior movement of lens in a patient with exfoliation syndrome and subluxated lens a case report Takashi Kanamoto Michiya Takamatsu and Yoshiaki Kiuchi Address Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Hiroshima University Japan Email Takashi Kanamoto - tkana@ Michiya Takamatsu - mictak@ Yoshiaki Kiuchi - ykiuchi@ Corresponding author Published 5 December 2007 Received 19 May 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1 172 doi 1752-1947-1-172 Accepted 5 December 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 172 2007 Kanamoto et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction To report the effect of topical latanoprost on the position of a subluxated lens. Case presentation After latanoprost was administered topically to a patient with ocular hypertension due to a pseudoexfoliation syndrome and a subluxated lens the position of the lens was examined by slit-lamp biomicroscopy and the ciliary body thickness by ultrasound biomicroscopy. The lens had moved posteriorly and the thickness of the ciliary body had decreased after the latanoprost. Conclusion We suggest that the decrease in the thickness of the ciliary body resulted in an increase in the tension of the zonule of Zinn fibers thus pulling the subluxated lens posteriorly. Case presentation An 80-year-old woman complained of visual disturbances in her right eye that began in July 2002. She did not have a history of any systemic illness and there was no family medical history of any disease. In 2001 she had

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