Оценка иридокорнеального угла глаза у кошек с различным строением черепа

Abstract

The study of the structure of the drainage system of the eye in small domestic animals today is one of the priorities for modern veterinary ophthalmology. Along with the clinical assessment of changes in the eyeball with a decrease or increase in intraocular pressure, it is important to identify fundamental aspects in the structure of the iridocorneal angle and its changes depending on the shape of the skull. Nowadays, there is a large amount of information in which the authors focus on changes in the comb ligament and the trabecular meshwork. However, there is no data on the difference in the size of the iridocorneal angle depending on the shape of the skull. The authors of the article present morphometric criteria of the iridocorneal angle in cats with brachycephalic and mesocephalic skull shapes, establish differences in size, and give practical recommendations for using the results of the research. It is shown that cats with different skull shapes have no pronounced deviations in the size of the hyridocorneal angle, while the average size of the angle in brachycephals is on average 20° larger than the size of the angle in mesocephals, which creates prerequisites for the development of secondary glaucoma.