Abstract

PEREZ MOLINA, Elina Caridad  and  FARINAS FALCON, Zoila. Neovascular glaucoma. A case report. Medicentro Electrónica [online]. 2023, vol.27, n.3  Epub Sep 01, 2023. ISSN 1029-3043.

We present a 60-year-old male patient with a history of type II diabetes mellitus complicated by diabetic retinopathy, as well as neovascular glaucoma of torpid evolution in his left eye. He came to the glaucoma consultation in the Ophthalmological Center at "Arnaldo Milián Castro" Clinical and Surgical University Hospital in Villa Clara due to blurred vision and ocular discomfort in his right eye. Decreased vision, active bleeding from the iris vessel, corneal edema, iris rubeosis, ocular hypertension was observed in such eye at ophthalmological examination and diabetic retinopathy at eye fundus; blood tests were performed showing elevated glycemia figures (20 mmol /l). The diagnosis of neovascular glaucoma of the right eye is stated in the course of a decompensated type II diabetes mellitus. Medical and surgical treatment is indicated and a favourable evolution is achieved.

Keywords : glaucoma, neovascular; diabetic retinopathy; corneal edema; diabetes mellitus, type 2.

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