Fibrosing response to aqueous. Its relation to glaucoma.

SIMPLE open-angle glaucoma in the South African Bantu races is an even graver disease than in Europeans. Should the disease progress, as it usually does, so that drug therapy no longer controls the pressure and surgery becomes inevitable, the results of drainage operations -are strangled by the relatively rapid fibrosis that develops. Generally this has been attributed to the keloid tendency of these races. Thus the very surgical trauma involved in raising a conjunctival flap seemingly automatically condemns the operation to failure.