hereditary glaucoma
Findings
No curated finding names hereditary glaucoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Hereditary glaucoma is a clinically diverse group of rare eye disorders with genetic predisposition characterized by elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucomatous changes of the optic nerve head, leading to field defects, visual loss and blindness. Hereditary glaucoma can be sub-classified as primary (congenital glaucoma, juvenile glaucoma) or secondary according to the presence or absence of systemic or other ocular anomalies (iridogoniodysgenesis, Stickler syndrome, Coats syndrome). The clinical presentation is variable and is based on age, severity of glaucoma, presence of ocular abnormalities and development of secondary IOP related abnormalities.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0018174), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (12)
- anterior segment dysgenesis 3
- congenital glaucoma
- exfoliation syndrome
- glaucoma 1, open angle, O
- glaucoma 1, open angle, P
- glaucoma secondary to spherophakia/ectopia lentis and megalocornea
- glaucoma with elevated episcleral venous pressure
- hereditary glaucoma, primary closed-angle
- iris hypoplasia with glaucoma
- juvenile open angle glaucoma
- OPTN-related open angle glaucoma
- TEK-related primary glaucoma
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: hereditary glaucoma
- Also called
- hereditary glaucoma (disease)