Talk:Pigment dispersion syndrome
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How is this diagnosed? Toby 12:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Through acute-angle eye exams. When the aqueous humor is illuminated correctly, "Krukenberg's spindle" appears to the examiner, a pattern of accumulated pigment particles (named after the original discoverer) which (I believe) always appears in the eyes of afflicted people. While my eyes show what I believe to be evidence of pigmentary loss to the naked eye—random empty patches in the iris pigment—I don't think this is a necessary (or possibly even directly causal) indicator for the syndrome.
In any event, I feel lucky to have been examined at an optometry institute rather than, say, a 'storefront' as I believe the syndrome is rare and obscure enough that many years-out-of-school optometrists wouldn't catch it until glaucoma symptoms appear, despite the standardization of acute-angle examinations in the field of optometry.Gropo 20:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
