Modern concept of neovascular glaucoma (review)

Abstract

The aim of this study is analysis of current methods for diagnosis and treatment of neovascular glaucoma to assess their effectiveness, and based on these data, further development of a method of surgical treatment based on morphological factors involved in its progression. The review was performed using the domestic RSCI database and the international PubMed database, with the search keywords being neovascular glaucoma, secondary glaucoma, ophthalmic hypertension. An analysis of 39 literature sources was performed. The search depth was 13 years (20092022). Variants of neovascular glaucoma development of and of its diagnosis were considered, it was noted that it is necessary to pay attention to the study of minimally invasive methods for diagnosing the anterior segment using optical coherence tomography, which will help in the future to choose the right tactics for medical or surgical treatment. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of surgical treatment methods, which often turn out to be ineffective and require re-operations. It is necessary to develop a new method of surgical treatment of neovascular glaucoma, which provides the most sparing approach to surgical treatment, which will improve the anatomical and functional results and help reduce the number of intra- and postoperative complications and provide a longer period without re-operations.