What causes open angle glaucoma
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What causes glaucoma? No one knows exactly what causes glaucoma, but some factors raise your chances of having it: age, family history, African or Hispanic descent, nearsightedness, raised intraocular pressure (IOP), use of steroids and trauma to the eye …
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Primary Open Angle Glaucoma: A constellation of risk factors in addition to loss of neural tissue with increased cupping of a progressive nature. Progressive loss of visual field. Risk factors make this a multifaceted disease. Ocular Hypertension (HTN) vs. Glaucoma Suspect
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Or, the pupil opens too wide, narrowing the angle and blocking the flow of the fluid through that channel. Less common causes of glaucoma include a blunt or chemical injury to the eye, severe eye infection, blockage of blood vessels in the eye, inflammatory conditions of the eye, and occasionally eye surgery to correct another condition.
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Glaucoma Types, Symptoms and Treatment: * Open-Angle (accounting for around 90% of all glaucoma cases – per Glaucoma Research Foundation) – caused by slow clogging of drainage canals, develops slowly, has symptoms and damage that are not noticed. Eye pressures are typically one of the first signs, which require regular examinations and awareness.
Primary open-angle glaucoma: Causes, risks and treatment
Primary open-angle glaucoma: most common type; also called wide-angle glaucoma; cause unknown; drainage angle at the cornea and iris remains open, but the some of the microscopic drainage channels (trabecular meshwork) are blocked; the aqueous humor drains too slowly causing fluid build up and increased eye pressure. Angle-closure glaucoma
Glaucoma Grand Rounds
Primary open angle glaucoma occurs in elderly people. Affected individuals experience a slow, non-painful, loss of vision over a period of years. A less common type of glaucoma that occurs in people is acute congestive glaucoma. Acute congestive glaucoma is the result of a sudden, dramatic rise in intraocular pressures leading to acute blindness and clinical signs that include pain, redness, and …
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