Diagnosed as having juvenile glaucoma, he was almost totally blind by the time he was about 14 months old and beginning to walk.

As a youth he was diagnosed with juvenile glaucoma and his eyesight progressively worsened into his adulthood.

Symptoms: iris hypoplasis, goniodysgenesis, and juvenile glaucoma.

Congenital / Juvenile Glaucoma is rare.

Primary juvenile glaucoma is glaucoma that develops due to ocular hypertension and is evident either at birth or within the first few years of life.

Ackerman syndrome is a familial syndrome of fused molar roots with a single canal (taurodontism), hypotrichosis, full upper lip without a cupid's bow, thickened and wide philtrum, and occasional juvenile glaucoma.

Primary juvenile glaucoma is a neonate or juvenile abnormality where ocular hypertension is evident at birth or shortly thereafter and is caused by abnormalities in the anterior chamber angle development that blocks outflow of the aqueous humor.