Structural features of eyelid connective tissue in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.
L A SvetikovaElena N IomdinaN Y IgnatyevaA N SerikS F MigalN A NazarovaPublished in: International ophthalmology (2018)
Patients without POAG show a significant increase in [Formula: see text] with age, while [Formula: see text] slightly decreases. In POAG, [Formula: see text] is significantly higher and [Formula: see text] tends to grow, which may indicate structural changes in eyelid CT (collagen accumulation and cross-linking level rise). Since the upper lid is unaffected by increasing IOP directly, the changes may be viewed as manifestations of systemic CT pathology.
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