[Clinical experience with iridencleisis].

The authors report on 120 patients who underwent iridencleisis (155 eyes). Of these, 36 had open-angle glaucoma, 26 congestive glaucoma and 54 were suffering from acute glaucoma of long standing. Two patients had exfoliation syndrome and two, secondary glaucoma. The kind of filtration bleb, postoperative complications such as flat anterior chamber or loss of anterior chamber, hyphema, choroidal detachment and postoperative and final regulation of IOP are discussed in detail. Since 1975, the authors have preferred Fronimopoulos' method of goniotrepanation to iridencleisis for treating open-angle and congestive glaucoma. However, in cases of protracted, uninterrupted acute glaucoma iridencleisis can still be recommended as a dependable procedure.