[Results of prophylactic iridectomy].

Between 1974 and 1981 263 patients were treated for acute narrow-angle glaucoma; in 117 of these cases a prophylactic iridectomy was performed on the fellow eye. In two cases there were surgical complications. In none of the 52 patients followed up for at least two years did narrow-angle glaucoma recur. The formation or progression of lens opacities were attributable not to the iridectomy but to the age of the patients.