[War injuries of the eye and post-traumatic glaucoma]

The authors present a problem secondary posttraumatic glaucoma caused by perforative eye injuries or contusions of the eyeball. Posttraumatic glaucoma after perforative injuries appears in high percentage 25-67%, with the postcontusion glaucoma is rare, and appears in 2-5% cases. It can appear near after injury but also after 10 years. This type of glaucoma has specific clinic finding, inversive type of tonometry, curve, retention type of curve and long interval without rise intraocular pressure. Prognosis of this glaucoma is very difficult and unsure. Most cases finish with blindness and enucleation because of the constant torpid inflammation, pains and danger of sympathetic ophthalmia. Prevention is in early microsurgery and reconstructive treatment of wound and correct conservative treatment of postcontusion glaucoma.