Argon laser treatment of the ciliary processes in aphakic glaucoma with flat anterior chamber.

We treated three patients (a 72-year-old man, a 68-year-old woman, and a 60-year-old man) with aphakic glaucoma with flat anterior chamber by administering laser burns to the ciliary processes (11 ciliary processes in one case, 27 in the second, and three in the third). There was some improvement in all three cases; in one case the intraocular pressure decreased from more than 50 mm Hg to less than 20 mm Hg. In each case the anterior chamber deepened immediately without administration of cycloplegics.