Mahmut ATUM, Erel İÇEL, Yücel KARAKURT, Nurdan Gamze TASLI, Turgay UÇAK

Comparison of anterior segment parameters and corneal endothelial changes in patients with pseudoexfoliative glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation syndrome

Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the changes in anterior chamber morphology and corneal endothelium in patients withpseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG) and to determine the differences according to thecontrol group.Material and Methods: 61 eyes of 61 PEX patients, 56 eyes of 56 PEXG patients and 46 eyes of 46 healthy subjects were includedin the study. Measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) was taken and axial length (AL), K1, K2, central corneal thickness (CCT),white-to-white distance (WTW), anterior chamber depth (ACD), pupil diameter (PD) by optical biometry and endothelial cell density(ECD), polimegatism (CV), pleomorphism (HEX) and average cell area (AVG) by specular microscope were taken of all the patients.Evaluation among the groups were made by ANOVA test, and p 0.05).There were no statistically significant differences among the groups in terms of IOP, AL, K1, K2, WTW, ACD (p> 0.05). Pupil diametervalues were lower in the PEX group. CCT and endothelial cell counts were found to be higher in the control group compared to theother groups, while no significant difference was found between PEX and PEXG groups. AVG results were found to be significantlyhigher in the PEXG group than in the control group (p

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