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. 2022 Jun 18;15(6):1005–1010. doi: 10.18240/ijo.2022.06.20

Table 1. Predisposing factors for the appearance of rubeosis iridis and neovascular glaucoma.

Predisposing factors
1. Diabetic retinopathy
2. Retinal vascular occlusive diseases
 Central retinal vein occlusion
 Central retinal artery occlusion
 Branch retinal vein occlusion
 Branch retinal artery occlusion
3. Extraocular vascular diseases
 Common or internal carotid artery occlusion or stenosis
 Ophthalmic artery occlusion
 Carotid-cavernous sinus fistulas
 Aortic arch syndrome
 Giant cell arteritis
 Takayasu arteritis
4. Other ocular diseases
 Chronic retinal detachment
 Retinoschisis
 Coats exudative retinopathy
 Sickle cell retinopathy
 Leber congenital amaurosis
 Eales' disease
 Norrie disease
 Luetic retinal vasculitis
 Stickler syndrome
 Retinopathy of prematurity
 Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous
 Chronic glaucoma
 Chronic uveitis (sarcoidosis)
 Behcet's disease
 Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
 Chron's disease with retinal vasculitis
 Endophthalmitis
 Vancomycin-associated hemorrhagic occlusive retinal vasculitis
 Sympathetic ophthalmia
 Retinoblastoma
 Reticular sarcoma
 Choroidal metastatic carcinoma
 Choroidal malignant melanoma
 Iris melanoma
 Ring melanoma of the ciliary body
 Large cell lymphoma
 X-ray and thallium/helium ion irradiation
 Radioactive plates
 Optic nerve glioma with ensuing retinopathy of venous stasis
 Neurofibromatosis (Recklinghausen disease)
 Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
 Retinocerebellar angiomatosis (Hippel-Lindau disease)
 Tuberous sclerosis
 Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy Criswick-Schepens
 Oculodermal melanocytosis (Naevus Ota)
5. Surgical cases
 Carotid endarterectomy
 Cataract extraction
 Par plana vitrectomy and lensectomy
 Nd:YAG capsulotomy
 Laser coreoplasty