Abstract:Objective To investigate the incidence and risk factors of malignant glaucoma in patients with primary angle-closure glaucoma after surgery, to establish and validate a nomogram model.Methods Select 3,389 patients (2,100 eyes) with primary angle closure glaucoma who received treatment in the ophthalmology department of a certain hospital from June 2015 to June 2023 as the research subjects. 42 eyes with malignant glaucoma within 6 months after surgery were selected as the occurrence group, and 2,058 eyes without malignant glaucoma were selected as the non occurrence group. Data on gender, age, comorbidity such as diabetes and hypertension, and preoperative factors like lens thickness, anterior chamber depth, LOWE coefficient, high intraocular pressure, chamber angle structure, axial length, and type of glaucoma were collected and compared. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted to explore the risk factors for malignant glaucoma. A nomogram model was constructed using R software version 4.3.0 and its discrimination ability was assessed using the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. The model's predictive performance was validated with 1000 bootstrap resamples.Results The proportion of patients in the incidence group who were under 50 years old, had sustained preoperative high intraocular pressure, complete closure of the angle structure, thin lens thickness, short axial length, and shallow anterior chamber depth was higher than that in the non incidence group (P < 0.05). A multivariate general logistic regression analysis showed that, high preoperative intraocular pressure [O^R = 24.179 (95% CI: 1.724, 339.108) ], complete closure of angle structure [O^R = 59.427 (95% CI: 4.173, 846.224)], and acute glaucoma [O^R = 15.507 (95% CI: 1.063, 226.222) ] were the risk factors for postoperative malignant glaucoma (P < 0.05); Age [O^R = 0.022 (95% CI: 0.001, 0.692) ], lens thickness [O^R = 0.037 (95% CI: 0.003, 0.493)], long axial length [O^R = 0.506 (95% CI: 0.264, 0.971) ], and deep anterior chamber depth [O^R = 0.0004 (95% CI: 0.000, 0.963) ] are protective factors for postoperative malignant glaucoma (P < 0.05). Model evaluation shows that the area under the ROC curve is 0.979, the Jordan index is 0.871, the sensitivity is 89.3% (95% CI: 0.790, 0.960), and the specificity is 97.8% (95% CI: 0.850, 0.980), demonstrating good discrimination ability. The calibration curve further confirms the high accuracy of the model, and Bootstrap self validation shows a mean square error of 0.032 through 1000 resampling.Conclusion The predictive model for postoperative malignant glaucoma in primary angle-closure glaucoma developed in this study is feasible. Patients with these risk factors should be given special attention during surgery to reduce the risk of developing malignant glaucoma.