What is Intraocular pressure? Why is it so important in diagnosing and following glaucoma patients? How do we accurately measure it in the clinic? Intra-ocular pressure is the most important parameter for treating and stabilizing glaucoma. The intraocular pressure (the pressure built-up within the eye) is an indication of how full the eye is with fluid, […]
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A visual field test is preformed by a specially trained technician. The results of each individual eye are registered in print and the patient is requested to give the test results to the ophthalmologist during the patient’s next visit. According to the findings in the test, the doctor can diagnose the patient, and determine what
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To which of you that want to experience in a visual field test, and feel what happens in that dark room, I made a simulation of the test, for you to experiment in the feeling felt during the test. At the bottom of this page you will see a simulation in which lights are projected
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A computerized visual field examination is a test that enables us to evaluate the amount of damage existing in the visual field of an eye suffering from glaucoma. If, on the other hand, no damage is found, we might conclude that the eye is either healthy, or at risk to develop future visual field damage. In
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Normal Optic Nerve Normal Optic Nerve Glaucoma Suspect Glaucoma Advanced Glaucoma Blindness
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Glaucoma: Imaging Optic Nerve Damage Glaucoma is a common disease, which usually occurs, in older age. Its incidence is 2-4% of the population older than 40, while in the 80+ year old population its incidence is greater than 6%. The optic nerve is damaged in glaucoma because of increased intra-ocular pressure, pressure that, over time,
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This is a particularly important page, which I encourage you to read, particularly if you routinely place eye-drops in your eyes. Please note that this is a particularly important section! And that there is a good chance that the information presented here will help to improve your quality of life and may even assist you
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This is a particularly important section which I encourage you to read, particularly if you place glaucoma eye-drops regularly. In the following links- you will find, in simple text, information on each and every eye-drop used for glaucoma. For each class of eye-drops, the mechanism of action, a list of the important side-effects as well as
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Once diagnosed with glaucoma, it is essential to lower and balance the intra-ocular pressure as much as possible. The term to ‘balance’ refers to decreasing the pressure to values in which it is expected that the disease will no longer continue to progress, or at least will be significantly slowed down. Generally there are three methods for
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Until about twenty years ago the treatment of glaucoma was viewed by the ophthalmologist as having a single aim – the reduction of intraocular pressure to a value of
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