By Anthony B. Litwak OD
Offers functional scientific information regarding the administration of this illness. Covers crucial scientific manifestations, diagnostic applied sciences and healing modalities, and studies fresh advancements within the pathogenesis and administration of glaucoma.
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Mine whether the patient shows significant, potentially dangerous, pressure spikes during the course of the day and to establish a more meaningful ‘Tmax’—the patient’s maximal recorded IOP. Such testing can also help classify patients as normal tension glaucoma patients (as opposed to POAG), although this distinction is of relatively little practical significance. 3 In congenital and secondary glaucoma, the diagnosis is usually based on the presence of raised IOP. The presence of glaucomatous optic nerve atrophy simply confirms the diagnosis and makes cases more severe.
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