VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello I’m Dr. David Richardson. I’m a cataract and glaucoma surgeon in Southern California, and on my morning commute, I like to discuss those topics that there’s simply not enough time to discuss in the exam room. We’ve...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing How to get the Most out of your Visual Field Testing Given how important it is to obtain visual field testing and given how it takes both time and effort to do it, it makes sense to do what one can in order to obtain high...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Reasons Why Visual Field Testing Alone is Inadequate to Follow Glaucoma Progression As important as visual field testing may be, it is not the only test that should be performed in most individuals being followed for glaucoma....
It’s a pretty good assumption that if you are reading this either you’ve been diagnosed with glaucoma, told you are at risk for glaucoma, or know someone with glaucoma. These are all good reasons to care and to want to gain more knowledge about this disease of the...
Close your eyes for a second. Now imagine this immense darkness for the rest of your life. This lifetime of blindness is what glaucoma does. Glaucoma is a serious medical condition that requires immediate attention, because if left untreated, can lead to...
Like a ticking time bomb, blindness is waiting to explode in a glaucoma eye. Sadly however, majority of persons with glaucoma have it for years without them ever knowing. It is estimated that less than half of the patients with glaucoma are aware they have it. This is...
Understanding Glaucoma Being diagnosed with glaucoma can bring feelings of panic to both patients and their loved ones. Glaucoma is called the silent “thief of sight” and the second leading cause of blindness around the world. Rarely do symptoms appear until damage to...
Catching the Eye Thief In glaucoma, what you don’t know can blind you. Glaucoma is an insidious eye thief which can literally rob a person blind. Because there are hardly any symptoms in the earlier stages of the disease, most glaucoma sufferers are unaware they have...
Click (+) Sign to See The Video Transcript Glaucoma Treatment - Canaloplasty | abc7 There is now a new glaucoma treatment, called canaloplasty. “Traditional glaucoma surgery, called trebeculectomy, has quite a few risks associated with it,” said Dr. David...