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Evaluation of a patient with a painful red eye, with corneal and scleral injection, is a common and important problem in primary health care in general practice and in Emergency Departments. Causes include conjunctivitis (infective or allergic), corneal abrasion and foreign body, contact lens overwear, and a number of other conditions. Conditions requiring urgent diagnosis and treatment include acute angle-closure glaucoma, an uncommon but important cause of the 'acute red eye'. Acute glaucoma occurs in eyes with a shallow anterior chamber, and, with the pupil dilated, the peripheral iris blocks aqueduct outflow and an abrupt rise in intraocular pressure occurs, with pain, corneal and scleral injection, corneal oedema, and visual blurring (often with haloes around objects). In some patients, nausea and vomiting accompany the eye symptoms and photophobia can be intense. Symptoms often come on at night and affect older patients. The diagnosis is suggested further, on examination, by irregularity of the pupil with sluggish reaction to light, a hazy and oedematous cornea and elevated intraocular pressure (greater than 20mm), with the globe feeling firm or stony-hard on palpation. In this older patient the scenario and findings suggest that the diagnosis is most likely to be acute angle-closure glaucoma. The hazards of worsening acute angle-closure glaucoma by inducing pupillary dilatation to facilitate retinal examination have probably previously been overstressed, and the facilitation of assessment of the retina probably outweighs any potential for worsening the degree of aqueous obstruction. Primary open angle glaucoma is a chronic and insidious condition, distinct from the 'acute red eye', and presents usually with gradual chronic loss of visual acuity, which can lead to blindness due to an insidious optic neuropathy with chronic elevation of intraocular pressure. The optic nerve disc shrinks and the recessed cup under the disc enlarges ('cupping'). The classic triad of presentation is painless loss of vision and visual field, cupping of the optic disc, and raised intraocular pressure. Acute iritis (iridocyclitis, uveitis) is an inflammatory reaction, sometimes associated with autoimmune disorders, but often without such associations. Diagnosis requires specialist slit-lamp assessment to identify inflammatory cells in the anterior chamber. (缺图)