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Glaucoma has been classified into specific types:[8]
* Primary glaucoma
* Primary open-angle glaucoma, also known as chronic open-angle glaucoma, chronic simple glaucoma, glaucoma simplex
* Low-tension glaucoma
* Primary closed-angle glaucoma, also known as primary angle-closure glaucoma, narrow-angle glaucoma, iris-block glaucoma, acute congestive glaucoma
* Acute angle-closure glaucoma
* Chronic angle-closure glaucoma
* Intermittent angle-closure glaucoma
* Superimposed on chronic open-angle closure glaucoma (combined mechanism)
* Variants of primary glaucoma
* Pigmentary glaucoma
* Exfoliation glaucoma, also known as pseudoexfoliative glaucoma or glaucoma capsulare
* Developmental glaucoma
* Primary congenital glaucoma
* Infantile glaucoma
* Glaucoma associated with hereditary of familial diseases
* Secondary glaucoma
* Inflammatory glaucoma
* Uveitis of all types
* Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis
* Phacogenic glaucoma
* Angle-closure glaucoma with mature cataract
* Phacoanaphylactic glaucoma secondary to rupture of lens capsule
* Phacolytic glaucoma due to phacotoxic meshwork blockage
* Subluxation of lens
* Glaucoma secondary to intraocular hemorrhage
* Hyphema
* Hemolytic glaucoma, also known as erythroclastic glaucoma
* Traumatic glaucoma
* Angle recession glaucoma: Traumatic recession on anterior chamber angle
* Postsurgical glaucoma
* Aphakic pupillary block
* Ciliary block glaucoma
* Neovascular glaucoma
* Drug-induced glaucoma
* Corticosteroid induced glaucoma
* Alpha-chymotrypsin glaucoma. Postoperative ocular hypertension from use of alpha chymotrypsin.
* Glaucoma of miscellaneous origin
* Associated with intraocular tumors
* Associated with retinal deatchments
* Secondary to severe chemical burns of the eye
* Associated with essential iris atrophy
* Absolute glaucoma
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