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Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome (Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma)

Background

In 1917, a Finnish ophthalmologist named John Gustaf Lindberg first described pseudoexfoliation syndrome. This entity is characterized by flakes of granular material at the pupillary margin of the iris and throughout the inner surface of the anterior chamber. It is also associated with secondary open-angle glaucoma, known as pseudoexfoliation glaucoma, which is the most common identifiable form of secondary open-angle glaucoma worldwide. Georgiana Dvorak-Thebold suggested the term pseudoexfoliation to differentiate it from true exfoliation or lamellar delamination of the lens capsule found in glassblowers. True exfoliation syndrome is due to heat or infrared-related changes in the anterior lens capsule.

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