Abstract
Glaucoma is a common disease in animals, often leading to blindness. Nowadays, there are several treatments for glaucoma. One of promising technique is transscleral cyclophotocoagulation. This article presents a clinical case of treating a dog with bilateral secondary glaucoma complicated by optic atrophy and blindness of the right eye. Thanks to the combination of drug therapy and surgical treatment, a steady decrease in intraocular pressure was achieved.
Highlights
Glaucoma is one of the most unpleasant eye diseases for veterinarians and owners
If the animal is diagnosed with chronic glaucoma, in most of these cases, the affected eye will be irreparably blind, and there will be no talk of restoring visual function
In September 2018, they went to another clinic for conjunctivitis, and it was diagnosed with glaucoma
Summary
Glaucoma is one of the most unpleasant eye diseases for veterinarians and owners. The first signs of glaucoma can be nonspecific and are characterized by redness of the conjunctiva of one or both eyes, soreness, eyes manifesting by squinting, as well as clouding of the cornea of any severity. Eyes with acute glaucoma will be temporarily blind due to increased intraocular pressure and the effect of pressure on the optic nerve In such cases, vision may return after normalization of intraocular pressure. In the absence of relief of an acute attack of glaucoma during the day, as a rule, irreversible loss of vision occurs due to damage to the retina, compression of the optic nerve and, subsequently, its atrophy Both primary and secondary glaucoma is difficult to diagnose and requires an individual approach to the choice of therapeutic tactics, which determined the relevance of our work [8, 9, 10, 11]. In the literature available to us, we did not find data about applying of laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation using the “Lakhta-Milon” laser apparatus, which determined the purpose of our study
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