title: [Treatment of primary closed angle glaucoma].
abstract: Surgery is the treatment of choice in angle closure glaucoma. Exceptions to this rule are rare. Peripheral iridectomy is the operation in reversible forms: asymptomatic forms, drug normalized attacks without anatomic alterations of the anterior segment, and when both eyes have the same biometry. Trabeculectomy is the treatment of all irreversible forms: attacks that are not controlled even with intensive medical management and subacute forms that progress to chronic angle closure glaucoma. Indication for combined cataract-trabeculectomy surgery are discussed in the text.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000601:surgery; D011680:Pupil / Q000187:drug effects; D014129:Trabecular Meshwork / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Traitement du glaucome primitif par fermeture de l'angle.