Congenital glaucoma is fortunately a rare disease.
«The real tragedy of congenital glaucoma is that it is easily spotted but that we still too often miss it, regret the Pr Danièle Denis, head of the ophthalmology department at the Timone hospital in Marseille. It is then necessary to operate urgently with a sometimes less satisfactory result and long-term consequences.
Congenital glaucoma is fortunately a rare disease: the figures vary between one birth in 18,000 and one in 45,000. It is linked to a malformation of the eye, most often due to the persistence of an embryonic membrane which prevents the proper evacuation of the aqueous humor in the angle of the eye. Unlike adults, in whom the intraocular pressure increases very slowly, the internal pressure of the eye in children rises within a few weeks. The eyeball swells until it crushes the optic nerve on the back and deforms the cornea on the front – the eyes appear very large. The damage may be irreversible after a few…
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