angle recession

Of those eyes with angle recession, very few (reportedly 0-20%) develop glaucoma.

Glaucoma following an angle recession that involves less than 180 of the iris is very unusual.

Eyes with an angle recession involving more than 240 of the iris appear to be at the highest risk for glaucoma.

Angle recession, with or without a diagnosis of glaucoma, commonly results after the eye experiences blunt trauma.

Iridodialyses often accompany angle recession and may cause glaucoma or hyphema.

Angle recession glaucoma is a type of traumatic glaucoma.

Those with traumatic iridodialyses (particularly by blunt trauma) are at high risk for angle recession, which may cause glaucoma.

Although angle recession glaucoma is uncommon, it may not be readily diagnosed because the onset of symptoms is often delayed.

The requirement for extensive iridocorneal angle damage for IOP elevation agrees closely with independent estimates from studies of human patients with angle recession [ 43 44 ] .

The risk of eventual progression to glaucoma is generally accepted to be proportionate to the extent of the angle recession, although the presence of angle recession alone is not a good predictor for the occurrence of glaucoma.

Patients in whom the angle recession extends for 240 to 360 degrees of the angle circumference (67 to 100%) frequently develop elevated IOP and glaucoma whereas patients with less extensive damage typically do not have high IOP, although their risk of progressing to glaucoma is increased.