[Treatment of glaucoma with beta receptor blockers]

We report the possibility of treatment with beta-adrenergic blocking agents in glaucoma-therapy. In open-angle glaucoma the therapy with beta-adrenergic blocking agents is often the best one. The combination of beta-adrenergic blocking agents with miotics is the therapy of choice in the treatment of closure-angle glaucoma. In special forms of glaucoma it is necessary to decide if the best therapy is the treatment with beta-adrenergaic blocking agents alone or a combined treatment of beta-adrenergic blocking agents with miotics. The beta-adrenergic blocking agent timolol (Chibro-Timoptol) and bupranolol (Ophtorenin) lower in the intraocular pressure to a greater extent than other beta-adrenergic blocking agents. Timolol eye drops and bupranolol eye drops are therefore the best beta-adrenergic blocking agents in therpay of glaucoma.