[Visual function and professional preparation of persons with congenital glaucoma. IV. Complications of congenital glaucoma].

The authors evaluated complications which appeared in 113 eyes in 66 patients treated for congenital glaucoma. The most frequent early complication connected with the surgical procedure was an anterior chamber haemorrhage (in 22 eyes). Individual cases exhibited intravitreal haemorrhage (5 eyes) and uveitis (2 eyes). Among the late complications prevailed complicated cataract (in 30 eyes), less frequently nystagmus (11 eyes), intraocular infection (9 eyes), squint (17 eyes) and internal hemophthalmos.