There are many inheritable forms of glaucoma, both primary and secondary. While inheritance patterns and genetics are not perfectly mapped out for glaucoma, there are some basic observations that can help us screen for glaucoma among family members:
Phakomatoses: Overview
Phakomatoses are a multidisciplinary category of systemic diseases that is often tested for a multitude of reasons. Although the incidence of these conditions is fairly low (though chances are you will see at least 1 case of many of these conditions), there are many ocular findings that need to be considered.
I've been debating how to organize this information in a useful manner for review for quite some time. The subject material is pretty massive, and each condition could easily take several articles (and probably eventually will). But I wanted to make sure there was a useful review out there on this subject before the written board exam, in case the test covers one of these conditions.
Aniridia
As you can probably tell, I'm starting to skip around a little bit while I put together these OKAP review articles. I have a fairly large list of topics to cover, but hopefully these will all be helpful pieces of information. I decided to skip to aniridia, because it is one of those conditions that seems to be very popular in practice questions.