[Primary anterior chamber angle closure: progression from suspect to glaucoma. Part 2. Predictors of primary angle closure]. / Pervichnyi zakrytyi ugol perednei kamery: progressirovanie ot podozreniya do glaukomy. Chast' 2. Prediktory pervichnogo zakrytogo ugla.

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To review the literature devoted to the search of predictors of primary angle closure (PAC) progression as an important link in the pathogenesis of primary angle-closure glaucoma. This part presents a cluster analysis, describes the mechanisms of PAC development, and considers the studies aimed at discovering the risk factors for the progression of primary angle closure suspect into true angle closure. The results of the analyzed literature are ambiguous, indicating the need for further research that would involve strict inclusion criteria, and a standard approach to defining the primary angle closure disease and expanding the diagnostic parameters, in which a key role belongs to anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).