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SUMMARY

Aim: No population-based assessment of the prevalence and incidence of pediatric glaucoma in Azerbaijan are
available. Here we describe the spectrum of hospitalized pediatric glaucoma patients inNaional Eye Center named
after acad. Zarifa Aliyeva.

Methods
We reviewed the charts of pediatric patients, from birth to 16 years old, with a discharge diagnosis
of glaucoma in National Eye Centre, from 2007 to July 2011. All children were admitted for anti-glaucoma
surgery, treating the sequelae of the glaucoma, or examination under anestesia. We evaluated the demographic
characteristics and the proportion of different glaucoma subtypes.

Results
Pediatric patients (n = 101) accounted for 2.14% of the total glaucoma in-patients from 2007 to
July 2011, and at last data of pediatric glaucoma were presented for 71 children who came from 21 city and
regions of Azerbaijan. Boys were more common in all subtypes and at all ages, with a total ratio of boys to girls
of 2:1. Congenital glaucoma was the most common subtype, accounting for 50.7% in all patients. The median
presenting age of pediatric glaucoma patients was 4.6 years. Patients with systemic and ocular abnormalities who
had qlaucoma were the second most common group (n= 11, 15.5%). Vitreous-retinopathy and vitrectomy-related
qlaucoma was the third common subtype (n=6, 8.5%).

Conclusions
Congenital glaucoma is the most prevalent glaucoma subtype in hospitalized pediatric patients
in National Ophthalmological Centre named after Z.Aliyeva. The prevention and treatment of traumatic glaucoma
can reduce the incidence of visual damage in developing countries. Close follow-up for glaucoma is important
after pediatric cataract surgery.