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What is Glaucoma? Pearls to prevent blindness 8.23.2022

What is Glaucoma? Pearls to prevent blindness!

By Daniel Laroche MD

What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is a disease of the eye characterized by three components:

1. Damage and loss of the retinal ganglion cells and optic nerve are described as cupping.
2. Loss of visual field
3. Usually increased eye pressure (pressure may be normal at times)

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the world today. There are over three million people with glaucoma in the United States today and over 1 million do not even know it. There are over 80,000 people that go blind from glaucoma every year. It is the leading cause of preventable blindness in...

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