Neovascular glaucoma

Description

neovascular glaucoma: Neovascular glaucoma is the most common type of secondary glaucoma, usually caused by diabetic retinopathy, central retinal vein occlusion and carotid artery obstruction but sometimes by trauma, uvietis or ocular tumors, and characterized by severe eye pain, synechial angle glaucoma, high intraocular pressure and leading to loss of vision.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode DM_NEOVASCULAR_GLAUCOMA
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: H405
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: H405
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 1687
GWAS catalog 1001060
MESH D015355
SNOMED CT 232086000

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 323 149 174
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.24 0.2 0.3
Mean age at first event (years) 59.92 58.16 61.43
Median number of events / individual 3 3 3

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 57.89 49.66 64.94
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 11.46 8.72 13.79

Associations