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Glaucoma

Glaucoma Treatment (and Glaucoma surgery)

Glaucoma is a group of diseases of optic nerve involving loss of retina ganglian cells in a characteristic pattern if optic neuropathy that can steal sight without warning ir symptoms.  Glaucoma, nicknamed “the silent sight thief” is second leading cause of blindness worldwide; half of the people who have glaucoma don not know they have it. It is hereditary of 6% likelihood.  Asians are prone to develop a type called angle-closure glaucoma.  Women are three times more likely than men to develop acute angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallow anterior chambers.(eye sockets.)  Use if steroid can also cause glaucoma.

 

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