[From congenital glaucoma to chronic open angle glaucoma in adulthood: a clinical and genetic continuum].

Abstract excerpt

Congenital glaucoma, a true hydrocephalus of the eye, is defined by ocular hypertension resulting in buphthalmos in children up to three years old, the elasticity of the eye wall allowing its expansion. Juvenile glaucoma in teenagers and chronic glaucoma in adults do not alter the external aspect of the eye, as the eyeball has lost its elasticity. However, chronic ocular hypertension always causes ischemic...

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