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Toward Understanding the Optic Neuropathy of Glaucoma
Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:1102-1103.
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FOR MORE than a century, the diagnosis and management of glaucoma has been focused on the measurement of intraocular pressure. However, recently there has been increasing dissatisfaction with reliance on intraocular pressure for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Classifying glaucoma solely on an artificially constructed dichotomy of pressure values has been suggested to be futile.1 Moreover, some patients with glaucoma continue to worsen despite considerable lowering of intraocular pressure. It is evident that other factors that directly damage the optic nerve or increase its susceptibility to damage need to be identified and ameliorated.
OPTIC NEUROPATHY AND GLAUCOMA
In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Wax and colleagues2 shift our attention away from the intraocular pressure and redirect it to the optic neuropathy of glaucoma. They identify immunoglobulin deposition in the retina and evidence of apoptotic retinal cell death in a patient with characteristic glaucomatous optic neuropathy. As they only studied 1 patient, continued study of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
RISK FACTORS IN GLAUCOMA
CAUSE OR EFFECT IN GLAUCOMA
A THERAPEUTIC DILEMMA OF GLAUCOMA
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