Glaucoma is not a contagious disease; you can’t get it from being near someone who has it. And there are no specific behaviors or environmental influences that are known to be causes of glaucoma. Even so, it affects close to 2% of the U.S. population over age 40, and anyone can dev...
Whether glaucoma is a deformity or a disease, remains an open question. Thus Priestly Smith and his followers claim that glaucoma is a deformity of the eyeball, that an engorgement of the blood vessels in the posterior chamber pushes forward the lens and crowds the ciliary body and iris into...
One of the biggest risk factors for glaucoma is increased intraocular pressure, which often occurs as people get older and the fluid that is produced in the eye can not drain as well. Frequently, the disease is first overlooked and only discovered when the first damage to the retina already ...
Treatment for glaucoma is dependent upon the severity of the disease. The most common way to treat glaucoma is medicated eye drops. These drops can lower the pressure in your eyes and enhance your vision. They must be taken every day. For patients with advanced glaucoma, surgery is often rec...
Open-angle and narrow-angle forms can both be primary or secondary. However, the two most common types of glaucoma are both primary. Open-angle glaucoma Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG)is by far the most common form of the disease. In the US, 70% to 95% of all glaucoma cases are ...
Glaucoma has been nicknamed the “sneak thief of sight” because it often goes undetected and causes irreversible damage to the eye. There are usually no symptoms in the early stages of the disease. Many people have glaucoma but are not aware of it, making it a very scary, silent eye dise...
Glaucoma, disease caused by an increase in pressure within the eye as a result of blockage of the flow of aqueous humour, a watery fluid produced by the ciliary body. (The ciliary body is a ring of tissue directly behind the outer rim of the iris; beside
Protein buildup.Accumulation of beta-amyloid, a protein in the retina, is associated with glaucoma. It has also been found to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The most common cause of glaucoma is an increase in internal eye pressure but the disease can also occur when the intraocular...
However, some people will be found to have elevated eye pressure but no evidence of optic nerve damage. In this case, you may be told that you are a "glaucoma suspect" or have "pre-glaucoma," but do not yet have the disease. It is important to remember that not everyone with ...
Glaucoma Symptoms Open-Angle Glaucoma Most people with open-angle glaucoma don’t have symptoms. If symptoms do show up, they're usually late in the disease. That’s why glaucoma is often called the "sneak thief of vision." The main sign is usually loss of side, or peripheral, vision. ...