Phacolytic glaucoma the lens to become cloudy and gradually turn opaque, causing a decrease in vision. Through the leakage of proteins that have a high molecular weight an obstruction of the drainage mechanism of the eye is caused. A variety of procedures can be used to physically diagnose phacolytic glaucoma as there are a variety of other types of glaucoma which may be confused with phacolysis such as acute angle-closure glaucoma (AACG), lens-particle glaucoma, neovascular glaucoma, phacomorphic glaucoma and uveitic glaucoma which can cause confusion in which procedures need to be conducted to revamp vision. The first type of diagnosis procedure referred
Estrogen-dependent condition Estrogen-dependent condition An estrogen-dependent condition, disease, disorder, or syndrome, is a medical condition that is, in part or full, dependent on, or is sensitive to, the presence of estrogenic activity in the body. Known estrogen-dependent conditions include mastodynia (breast pain/tenderness), breast fibroids, mammoplasia (breast enlargement), macromastia (breast hypertrophy), gynecomastia, breast cancer, precocious puberty in girls, melasma, menorrhagia, endometriosis, endometrial hyperplasia, adenomyosis, uterine fibroids, uterine cancers (e.g., endometrial cancer), ovarian cancer, and hyperestrogenism in males such as in certain conditions like cirrhosis and Klinefelter's syndrome. Such conditions may be treated with drugs with antiestrogen actions, including selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs)