Congenital glaucoma

Congenital glaucoma is increased pressure inside the eyeball newborn (usually in both eyes). Congenital glaucoma occurs due to a disturbance in the development of fluid drainage from the eye. The disease is often inherited.

Symptoms include:

- Watery eyes
- Sensitive to light
- Red eye
- Cornea appear blurred
- Enlarged cornea.

For congenital glaucoma diagnosis needs to examine using ophthalmoscope.
Regular eye examinations are performed:

- Examination of the retina
- Measurement of pressure intraocular using manometer
- Visual field examination
- Check the sharpness of vision
- Inspection refraction
- Papillary reflex response
- Slit lamp examination.

If not treated, will be enlarged eyeball and almost certainly will happen blindness. Surgery is performed immediately after birth will give the best chance to reduce the pressure in the eye and to maintain visual function.

Other congenital eyes diseases is congenital cataracts.

Congenital Cataracts

Congenital cataract is a cloudiness in the lens eye found in the newborn, if in adult people this like myopia.

Congenital cataracts may be caused by:
- Galaktosemia
- Kondrodisplasia syndrome
- Congenital Rubella
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Pierre-Robin syndrome
- Familial congenital cataract
- Hallerman-Streiff Syndrome
- Serebrohepatorenalis syndrome (Lowe syndrome)
- Trisomy 13
- Conradi's syndrome
- Extodermal dysplasia syndrome
- Syndrome Marinesco-Sj? N.

The murky lens can be seen without the help of special equipment and appear to be whitish in color on the pupils who should black. Infants failed to show visual awareness of the surrounding environment and sometimes there nistagmus (rapid eye movement and unusual).

To make a diagnosis, a complete eye examination by an ophthalmologist.
To find the possible causes, it is necessary examine blood and x-rays.

Cataract should be removed as soon as possible in order to develop a vision functions normally. Cataract removed surgically, followed by the installation intraocular lens. If the cause is unknown, it is the cause of the treatment of congenital cataracts.