[Current trends in neovascular glaucoma treatment].

Neovascular glaucoma is divided in three clinical stages: rubeosis iridis, secondary open-angle glaucoma, and synechia of the angle-closure glaucoma. 36% of neovascular glaucomas occurs after central retinal vein occlusion, 32% after diabetic proliferative retinopathy, and 13% occurs after carotid artery obstructive. The key of success in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma is the early and rightly diagnosis, the treatment is aimed mainly at relieving pain, as the prognosis for maintaining visual function is extremely poor.

[Considerations regarding Goldmann's rheologic equation].

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to verify if Goldmann's rheological concept is still valid. That is because the validity of this concept has been contested. (Beneyto P.

[Research about surgical treatment in primary congenital glaucoma].

The aim of this investigation was the research of different types of surgical treatments applied to the early primary congenital glaucoma, and the identification of the best and most efficient therapies for each individual. It is a retrospective research on a number of 74 eyes with early primary congenital glaucoma, who were diagnosed and had an operation during the first four years from birth, since 1990 to March 2004, in 6 hospital centres from Romania. There were 101 surgical operation, the most frequent surgical methods used were trabeculotomy and trabeculectomy, which produce similar effects.

[Individual pressure tolerance--a "target" pressure?].

In literature there are many meanings for the limit between normal and pathological intraocular pressure: "normative pressure", "critic pressure", "individual tolerance pressure" and "target pressure". The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that these terms are synonymous.