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...
Contemporary medicine has alleviated humankind from the scourge of disease, both by preventing or finding cures for various ills like glaucoma. The technological breakthroughs in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) have been quite dramatic. POAG is a condition wherein...
With a patient’s sight on the line, glaucoma is a race against time. For every increase in intraocular pressure (IOP), a person with glaucoma slowly inches her way towards blindness. A glaucoma specialist therefore must address this process by keeping her patient’s...
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...
Glaucoma is the “silent thief of sight” that literally robs you blind. It is an eye disease that usually goes undetected for years because of the absence of any symptoms. Glaucoma is irreversible and progressive once damage to the nerves of the eye has...
Citation: De Moraes CGV, Juthani VJ, Liebmann JM, Teng CC, Tello C, Susanna R, Ritch R. Risk Factors for Visual Field Progression in Treated Glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol. 2011;129(5):562-568. doi:10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.72 ABSTRACT Objective: To determine intraocular...
An interesting similarity between Glaucoma and other neurodegenerative disorders (such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s) was recently reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It has been well known for awhile that both Parkinson’s...
About Canaloplasty Video Transcript Hello. I’m Dr. David Richardson.If you have glaucoma, you may be considering one of the many glaucoma surgeries available for this condition. Or, you may just be frustrated by the hassle, cost, and side effects of the glaucoma...
