Algorithm for diagnosing children with primary congenital glaucoma

All over the world today, congenital eye pathologies remain the main cause of blindness and low vision in children, reducing the quality of life and to this day is considered the most severe health problem. According to epidemiological studies of the World Health Organization (WHO), "... 4.4% of cases of congenital glaucoma leads to blindness, and 2.2% of cases to low vision". According to some authors, "... congenital glaucoma in children from 1% to 10% of cases leads to blindness". The variety of clinical symptoms, the complexity of pathogenesis and the severity of the outcomes of the disease once again proves the feasibility of considering early diagnosis and improving the treatment of congenital glaucoma.\n\n\n \n\n\n 

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