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Chronic open-angle glaucoma is usually bilateral, with insidious onset and a slowly progressive course. Symptoms appear late in the disease and include mild aching in the eyes, loss of peripheral vision, seeing halos around lights, and reduced visual acuity (especially at night) that isn’t correctable with glasses.
Acute angle-closure glaucoma typically has a rapid onset, constituting an ophthalmic emergency. Symptoms include acute pain in a unilaterally inflamed eye, with pressure over the eye, moderate pupil dilation that’s nonreactive to light, a cloudy cornea, blurring and decreased visual acuity, photophobia, and seeing halos around lights. Increased IOP may induce nausea and vomiting, which may cause glaucoma to be misinterpreted as GI distress. Unless treated promptly, this acute form of glaucoma produces blindness in 3 to 5 days.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Clinical features vary with the form of glaucoma.
Usually bilateral, chronic open-angle glaucoma has an insidious onset and a slowly progressive course. Symptoms appear late in the disease and include mild aching in the eyes, loss of peripheral vision, seeing halos around lights, and reduced visual acuity (especially at night) that’s uncorrectable with glasses.
An ophthalmic emergency, acute angle-closure glaucoma typically has a rapid onset. Symptoms include unilateral inflammation and pain, pressure over the eye, moderate pupil dilation that’s nonreactive to light, a cloudy cornea, blurring and decreased visual acuity, photophobia, and seeing halos around lights.
Because increased IOP may induce nausea and vomiting, glaucoma may be misinterpreted as GI distress. Unless treated promptly, this acute form of glaucoma produces blindness in 3 to 5 days.
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
When considering symptoms of Congenital glaucoma, it is also important to consider Congenital glaucoma as a possible cause of other medical conditions. The Disease Database lists the following medical conditions that Congenital glaucoma may cause:
- (Source - Diseases Database)Onset of Congenital glaucoma: Infancy or early childhood.
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The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Congenital glaucoma. This signs and symptoms information for Congenital glaucoma has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of Congenital glaucoma signs or Congenital glaucoma symptoms. Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Congenital glaucoma may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they are indeed Congenital glaucoma symptoms.
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