The surgical treatment of canine glaucoma

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Abstract
The success of glaucoma therapy depends wholely upon the ability to restore rapidly an elevated intraocular pressure to normal, and subsequently to maintain adequate aqueous drainage. In the dog, the extent of synechial occlusion within the iridocorneal angle is often such that medical therapy proves to be of little or no lasting value, and a surgical approach is essential if ocular structure and function are to be preserved. The author has recently evaluated several techniques of glaucoma surgery in sixty‐one patients, and his results now indicate that corneoscleral trephination combined with peripheral iridectomy offers the greatest chance of success in the treatment of this condition.

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