The HLA system in primary open angle glaucoma and in patients with pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule (exfoliation or fibrillopathia epitheliocapsularis).

HLA typing of eighteen antigens in 43 patients with pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule, 45 patients with capsular glaucoma, and 43 patients with primary open angle glaucoma was performed. No significant deviation from a control series of 45 subjects was found.