[Argon laser trabeculoplasty in the treatment of secondary glaucoma]

Author refers a group of 17 eyes with secondary glaucomas with oper irido-corneal angle and treated by argon laser trabeculoplasty. The mean time of observation was 11.1 +/- 4.2 months after the operation. The intraocular pressure was compensated in 82.4% of eyes. The best results were achieved in the group of the exfoliative glaucomas and glaucomas present after the previous antiglaucomatic operations. The worst complication which occurred was the sympathetic ophthalmia.