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. 2015 Sep 16;2015:781294. doi: 10.1155/2015/781294

Table 2.

Epidemiology and percentage of glaucoma in rare diseases leading to childhood glaucoma.

Primary congenital glaucoma 1 in 10,000 to 68,000

Secondary childhood glaucoma
Disease Prevalence of disease Percentage of glaucoma in disease

Mesodermal dysgeneses of neural crest Iridocorneal trabeculodysgenesis
(i) Aniridia From 1/40,000 to 1/100,000 6–75% [1618, 24]
(ii) Axenfeld-Rieger's anomaly (syndrome if systemic associations) 1–9/1000000 50% [13]
(iii) Peter's anomaly (syndrome if systemic associations) 1/1000000 Not available
(iv) Marfan's syndrome 1/5000 2% [20]
(v) Weill-Marchesani syndrome 1/100000 80% [21]

Von Recklinghausen's syndrome 1/3000 1% [17, 24], 23% of patients with ipsilateral craniofacial anomalies [25]
Phakomatoses Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis (Sturge-Weber syndrome and variants such as Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome) 1/50000 50–70% [27] (100% incidence in cases associated with oculodermal melanocytosis [32])
Oculodermal melanocytosis 14/100000 to 34/100000 10% [29, 32]

Lowe's syndrome 1/500000 71% [34]
Metabolic disorders Homocystinuria 1/344000 85% of cases with ectopia lentis [38, 39, 41, 42]
Mucopolysaccharidoses 1/25000 2.1% to 12.5% [43, 95]

Mitotic disorders Juvenile xanthogranuloma Unknown 10% of patients present ocular anomalies with occasional glaucoma [44]

Other congenital disorders Trisomy 13 (Patau's syndrome) 1/6500 Not available
Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous Unknown 31% of patients present ocular abnormalities with occasional glaucoma [46]
Congenital cataract 1–6/10000 6–26% following cataract surgery [48]
Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome Unknown 15% [51]
Congenital rubella Unknown 29% [54]