[Angle block glaucoma and prophylactic iridectomy in the eye without symptoms (author's transl)]

58% of 114 patients who had been treated stationarily with an angle block glaucoma in one eye and who had had conservative therapy got an attack in the second eye in the course of 5 years from 1960 onwards till 1970. From 1970 onwards 77 patients were treated by prophylactic iridectomy in the eye without symptoms with a narrow chamber angle; no patient has an acute attack since then received.