{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,21]],"date-time":"2026-07-21T00:16:08Z","timestamp":1784592968761,"version":"3.55.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Nepal Journals Online (JOL)","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Nep J Oph"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Background: Glaucoma is an important cause of blindness. Objective: To report the distribution of various types of glaucoma among patients presenting to a tertiary eye hospital in Nepal. Materials and methods: All new patients visiting the hospital between March 2007 and February 2008 underwent a comprehensive eye examination. Whenever glaucoma was suspected, patients were referred to fellowship-trained glaucoma specialists. Patients received a comprehensive glaucoma workup including applanation tonometry, stereoscopic examination of the optic nerve head performed by the glaucoma specialists, and a Humphrey visual field analysis (SITA 24 - 2). Results: 447 patients were newly diagnosed with glaucoma. 171 (38.2 %) patients had primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), while 143 (32 %) had primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG). The average age of presentation of patients with POAG was 65.78 \u00b1 9.1 years, while the average age for PACG patients was 54.6 \u00b112.8 years. 30 (21 %) patients with PACG had acute angle-closure on presentation, while 113 (79 %) had chronic angle closure glaucoma. 107 (75 %) of these patients with PACG had visual acuity of less than 3\/60 (20\/ 400) in the worse eye at presentation. The most common form of secondary glaucoma was lens-induced (5.3 %), followed by neovascular (3.2 %) and uveitic glaucoma (3.2 %). Conclusion: The most common glaucoma seen in a tertiary referral eye hospital  of Nepal is primary open-angle glaucoma. Among the angle-closure glaucoma, chronic angle-closure is the most common. Lens-induced glaucoma is still the commonest cause of secondary glaucoma. Keywords: glaucoma, open-angle, angle-closure, lens-induced DOI: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3126\/nepjoph.v3i2.5263 Nepal J Ophthalmol 2011; 3(2): 123-127<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3126\/nepjoph.v3i2.5263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,8,19]],"date-time":"2011-08-19T05:32:55Z","timestamp":1313731975000},"page":"123-127","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Glaucoma at a tertiary referral eye hospital in Nepal"],"prefix":"10.3126","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"I","family":"Paudyal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"SS","family":"Thapa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"G","family":"Paudyal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"R","family":"Gurung","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S","family":"Ruit","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1670","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1970,1,1]]},"container-title":["Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,28]],"date-time":"2018-12-28T12:02:06Z","timestamp":1545998526000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.nepjol.info\/index.php\/NEPJOPH\/article\/view\/5263"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1970,1,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,8,18]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3126\/nepjoph.v3i2.5263","relation":{},"ISSN":["2091-0320","2072-6805"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2091-0320","type":"electronic"},{"value":"2072-6805","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1970,1,1]]}}}