A.S. TEZEVA¹, A.N. SAMOYLOV² 

¹Republican Clinical Ophthalmological Hospital, 14 Butlerov St., Kazan, Russian Federation,

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²Kazan State Medical University, 49 Butlerov St., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420012

Tezeva A.S. — ophthalmologist, tel. (843) 238-95-93, e-mail: samoilov@nm.ru

Samoylov A.N. —DM, Professor, Head of the Ophthalmology Department, tel. (843) 238-95-93, e-mail: samoilov@nm.ru

The article presents the results of the study of interleukins IL-1, IL-8, TNF-α level in the tear fluid of patients with open-angle glaucoma accompanied by lung sarcoidosis. The data were compared of the group of patients with glaucoma without systemic diseases and a group of patients with sarcoidosis without eye diseases. The IL-1, IL-8, TNF-α levels in patients with glaucoma with systemic sarcoidosis was increased. The reliable increase of interleukins level in tears with glaucoma accompanied by sarcoidosis, which allows to suggest the inflammatory character of glaucoma.

Key words: interleukins, tear, sarcoidosis, glaucoma.