Glaucoma is a result of collection of fluid within the eye & the resultant increase in intraocular pressure. This pressure affects the sensitive optic nerve resulting in irreversible damage.
Glaucoma has been rightly called “the silent stealer of eyesight.
What is most tragic is that vision loss due to Glaucoma is irreversible. Medicine, LASER & surgery can at best preserve the residual eyesight of the patient.
a) Persistent diminution of vision. b) Heaviness of head particular c) Another relevant symptom is frequent chnges in reading glass. d) The person may have defective dark adaptation i.e. can take a longer time to adapt to darkness.
This is of sudden onset. Blurred vision, severe pain, rainbow holes around light, nausea & vomiting are the immediate symptoms. Unless immediate medical attention is provided, blindness can result in a day or two.
Photophobia in the infant – This is visible literally from birth, since the eye of an infant is more elastic than of an adult, the increase of pressure leads to the eye bulging out.
Normal limit of Intra ocular pressure – 22 mm Hg. Sometimes even with this normal intraocular pressure there is continuous damage to optic nerve
a) YAG LASER iridotomy for Angle Closure Glaucome and suspect. b) ARGON Laser Iridoplasty for Plateau Iris Syndrome c) Selective Laser treabeculoplasty for open angle glaucoma & ocular hypertension. d) Laser suturelysis.
a) Trabeculectomy with & without antimetabolites. b) Valves Surgery. c) Non penetrate glaucoma surgery.