Treatment for normal tension glaucoma

    • American Academy of Ophthalmology: Protecting …

      Asians are at an increased risk for the less common types of glaucoma: angle-closure glaucoma and normal-tension glaucoma.2. Also at risk are people over age 40, those who are severely nearsighted, and those who have a family history of glaucoma. Glaucoma is a group of diseases that damages the eye’s optic nerve.

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    • [DOC File]Stephen F. Austin State University

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      Normal tension glaucoma. is also known as . low-tension glaucoma. or . normal pressure glaucoma. The optic nerve is damaged even though intraocular pressure (IOP) is not very high. Studies conclude that eye drops can be used to lower intraocular pressure. Most doctors treat it by keeping normal eye pressures as low as possible with medicines ...

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    • Dear Notetaker:

      Treatment is still to lower IOPs (this has been proven to be helpful) By lowering the IOPs in normal tension glaucoma, can slow down progression, but it is more challenging and difficult. It is actually easier to lower higher pressures (ex. bringing 40 mmHg down to 20 mmHg) than normal (ex. it is difficult to lower 17 mmHg to 12 mmHg) ...

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    • [DOC File]Glaucoma - SFACTL

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      Low-tension glaucoma : poorly understood, but not uncommon; optic nerve damage occurs even though eye pressure stays within normal range; some experts believe that it could be related to an overly sensitive optic nerve or reduced blood supply to the optic nerve due to atherosclerosis

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    • [DOC File]Glaucoma - Jones Vision Polaris

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      Angle-Closure Glaucoma onsets quickly and can be very painful and have more than one visible sign that something is wrong. Red eye, painful, high pressures… just to name a few. * Normal tension, Congenital, Secondary, Pigmentary, Pseudoexfoliative, Traumatic, and Neovascular Glaucoma are also other forms that are rare, but do exist.

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    • [DOC File]Complementary and Alternative Therapy for Glaucoma

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      Yamazaki Y, Hayamizu F, Tanaka C. Effects of long-term methylcobalamin treatment on the progression of visual field defects in normal-tension glaucoma. Curr Therap Res 2000;61:443-451. 142.

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