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Corticosteroid Responsiveness

Yoshiaki Kitazawa, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1970;84(6):724-727.

Abstract
The corticosteroid responsiveness of intraocular pressure was determined in 15 primary angleclosure glaucoma patients. None of them responded to the topical administration of 0.1% betamethasone ophthalmic solution with a rise in pressure greater than 6 mm Hg. The high incidence of a positive corticosteroid response in primary open-angle glaucoma patients, their siblings, and glaucoma suspects is in sharp contrast to the absence of corticosteroid responders in the group of patients with primary angle-closure glaucoma who were studied. However, the results of the study compare favorably to the high frequency of nonresponders in the selected normals.

Author Affiliations
Chiba-shi, Japan

From the Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba-shi, Japan.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 13, 1970.

Reprint requests to the Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba-shi, Japan (Dr. Kitazawa).

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