[Secondary glaucoma].

Our study of 1,254 patients with uveitis disclosed that nearly 10% had glaucoma as an additional visionrobbing feature of their disease, adding yet another dimension to the difficulties already posed by the inflammatory insult to the macula. Our data were similar to prior reports of the prevalence of glaucoma associated with selected specific uveitic entities.2-12 The prevalence has been especially alarming in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis-associated uveitis. The prevalence in our JRA patients was not as high as that published in some prior studies, perhaps because of our philosophy of intolerance to chronic, even "low grade" inflammation and to chronic steroid use.