[The fellow eye in acute angle-closure glaucoma (author's transl)].
With 5 years after the acute angle-closure glaucoma of an eye, in the fellow eye the same disease developed in only 15% of cases, but in 42% of cases in spite of the preventive miotic therapy a chronic angle-closure glaucoma developed unnoticed by the patients. Hence preventive iridectomy is suggested in the fellow eye.
D005901:Glaucoma / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000601:surgery*; D008916:Miotics / Q000627:therapeutic use
D008916:Miotics
Das Schicksal des zweiten Augen nach akutem Winkelbockglaukom