[Pseudo-exfoliative fibrillopathy in eastern Algeria. Epidemiologic and statistical study]

Abstract

The systematic examination of 1440 patients of more than 40 years old divided into two groups of 607 hospitalised patients and 833 consultants has revealed the exceptionally high frequency of the pseudo-exfoliative disease in the East of Algeria. In fact this syndrome is find in 25% of the cases. The analysis relates the different epidemiology criteria: age, topography, geographic factors and biomicroscopic characters. The association to the glaucoma of this syndrome forms the subjects of a study which details particularly its frequency, its different clinical forms, the factors of the intraocular pressure and the evolution under treatment. The authors have compared this study to those wHich have been described in literature.