Closed-angle glaucoma is the increase in intraocular pressure, which is due to a violation of the outflow of moisture. Most often it develops because of problems with the drainage system of the eye against the background of a complete closure or decrease in the angle of the anterior chamber. The disease is accompanied by very unpleasant symptoms and the consequences can be completely unpredictable.
Symptoms of closed-angle glaucoma
To provoke attacks of rising of pressure the most various, negatively influencing eyes, factors can:
- dull or on the contrary too bright light;
- some eye drops;
- certain medicines.
For these reasons, outflow of fluid is blocked, and an attack occurs. Usually this happens suddenly. There is a closed angle glaucoma with such symptoms:
- severe sharp pain in the eye;
- a headache from the affected eye;
- blurring
- the formation of halos around light sources;
- dilated pupil ;
- redness;
- lacrimation;
- edema of the century.
With an acute attack of angle-closure glaucoma, some patients even suffer from nausea and vomiting. More than once, ophthalmologists had to face the fact that because of pressure spikes the patient completely stopped seeing the affected eye. Pain in this case is extremely strong, extending to the area of the temple and eyebrows. Of course, this attack does not cost anything to knock a person out of the rut.
Treatment of closed-angle glaucoma
Do not treat yourself. And all the means that can be prescribed by specialists are used exclusively to stop the attack and improve the patient's well-being.
For the treatment of closed-angle glaucoma used drugs such as:
- Glycerol;
- Acetazolamide;
- Diakarb;
- Lasix ;
- Furasemide;
- Pilocarpine;
- Mannitol;
- Galantamine.
Effective with closed-angle glaucoma are drops with pilocarpine. They narrow the pupil, thereby giving the opportunity to straighten the iris of the eye and open the channels of outflows. And to protect the patient from attacks, drops with beta-blockers are used, which are able to control intraocular pressure.
In severe cases, it is impossible to do without surgical intervention. The best method of treatment is laser surgery. The principle of the operation is to make a small hole in the iris, through which all the excess liquid safely leaves.