title: [Acute glaucoma crisis].
abstract: Acute glaucoma crisis is an emergency in ophthalmology. Ocular and systemic clinical signs are typical and due to a paroxystic and severe increase of intraocular pressure. It is a biometric disease: little eye with a big lens. Main factors triggering the acute crisis are: stress, sympathicomimetics, parasympathicomimetics and parasympathicolytics drugs. Treatment is surgical: iridectomy, cataract extraction, trabeculectomy or combined surgery.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Ophtalmologie, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Collignon-Brach
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D032801:Iridectomy; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013566:Sympathomimetics / Q000009:adverse effects; D014130:Trabeculectomy
chemical_list: D013566:Sympathomimetics