What is The most common cause of glaucoma with elevated IOP and optic nerve damage present in only ONE eye is and explain in detail?
A secondary glaucoma may complicate perforating as well as blunt injuries. Mechanisms. Traumatic glaucoma may develop by one or more of the following mechanisms: Inflammatory glaucoma due to iridocyclitis, Glaucoma due to intraocular haemorrhage, Lens-induced glaucoma due to ruptured, swollen or dislocated lens, Angle-closure due to peripheral anterior synechiae formation following perforating corneal injury producing adherant leucoma. Epithelial or fibrous in growth, may involve trabeculum. Angle recession (cleavage) glaucoma. Axenfeld rieger syndrome and Sturge weber syndrome are not as common as trauma. Pseudoexfoliation syndrome -can cause both u/l as well as b/l glaucoma, most common secondary open-angle glaucoma worldwide