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Glaucoma

Risk factors

Having high intra ocular pressure

Being black, Asian

Having family history of glaucoma

Having thin cornea

Being over age 40

Prolonged use of corticosteroids

Eye injury

Types of glaucoma

Open angle glaucoma

The most common type of glaucoma

Closed angle glaucoma

A less common and more urgent form of glaucoma

Symptoms

Most people with open angle glaucoma don’t have symptoms to develop, it’s usually late in the
disease symptoms of angle closure glaucoma usually come on faster

Seeing halos around the lights

Vision loss

Redness in eyes

Vomiting

Eye pain

Investigations

Tonometry

Central corneal thickness

Documentation of optic disc changes

Slit lamp examination of anterior segment

Perimetry to detect the visual field loss

OCT- RNFL

Treatment

Medication (Eye drops & oral tablets)

Surgery

Laser trabeculoplasty

Stimulates the trabecular meshwork to function more efficiency

Laser iridotomy

Creates a small hole in the iris to improve flow of aqueous humor in to drainage angle

Trabeculectomy

Creates new drainage channel for the eye