Considerado um problema de saúde pública por representar importante causa cegueira irreversível, além demandar altos gastos ao Sistema Único Saúde, o glaucoma urge atenção especializada no Brasil. Objetivou-se, primeiramente, alcançar perspectivas específicas que tange glaucoma, abrangendo questões etiológicas, fisiopatológicas, clínico-sintomatológicas, comportamentais, diagnósticas, técnicas ...

In Ethiopia, glaucoma is the fifth most common cause of blindness and the disease caused irreversible blindness in an estimated 62,000 people in 2006.1 Due to the nature of the disease, an inadequate and inaccessible eye care service, and a very poor level of public awareness, glaucoma patients tend to come for help after they have become either unilaterally or bilaterally blind. Even among som...

Radiation has been associated with increases in noncancerous diseases. An effect of low-dose radiation on the prevalence of clinically detected glaucoma has not been previously reported. We therefore investigated the prevalence of glaucoma in A-bomb survivors and its possible association with radiation dose. A total of 1,589 people who participated in the clinical examination program for A-bomb...

PURPOSE To investigate the serum levels of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) in patients affected by primary open angle glaucoma with a wide spectrum of disease severity compared to healthy controls and to explore their relationship with morphological and functional glaucoma parameters. MATERIALS AND METHODS 45 patients affected by glaucoma at different st...

Although glaucoma is a major global cause of blindness, the lack of a uniform definition of the disease in its different forms makes it difficult to assess its public health impact. By considering the common features of glaucoma, we have analysed available data on the three main forms of the disease: congenital/hereditary glaucoma, primary open-angle, and primary angle-closure glaucoma. A simpl...

Glaucoma suspect describes a person with one or more risk factors that may lead to glaucoma, but this individual does not have definite glaucomatous optic nerve damage or visual field defect. The number of individuals with eye findings that raise a suspicion of glaucoma, usually elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) or asymmetric optic disk morphology, far exceeds the number of people who have be...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether understanding of glaucoma is associated with psychological disturbance and vision-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with glaucoma. DESIGN A prospective, hospital-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING Shanghai, China. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred patients with glaucoma were included in the study. Participants were asked to complete the glaucoma compreh...

BACKGROUND/AIM Few studies have reported on the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of glaucoma in south Asia. This project aimed to determine the prevalence of glaucoma of Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHOD A multistage, stratified, clustered sample was drawn from Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, using systematic sampling to identify individual subjects aged 35 years and older. Examination of all su...

To assess the value of the provocative tests of glaucoma we investigated the water-drinking and jugular compression tests in about 140 eyes. Three groups of cases were investigated: (i) Normal eyes ... ... ... 50 (ii) Eyes with established glaucoma: (a) chronic simple glaucoma ... ... 33 (b) acute congestive glaucoma ... ... ... 13 57 (c) chronic congestive glaucoma ... ... 1 I J (iii) Pre-glau...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing body of evidence strongly suggesting that glaucoma medications may contribute to ocular surface disease and development of dry eye. OBJECTIVE To identify glaucoma patients with dry eye, using a nationally representative sample, and to compare clinical and treatment characteristics with controls without dry eye. METHODS Patients taking intraocular pressure-l...