Glaucoma Symptoms, Treatment Options, Surgery, Causes

Glaucoma Symptoms, Treatment Options, Surgery, Causes

Glaucoma Symptoms, Treatment Options, Surgery, Causes

What is glaucoma?

Glaucoma is the name given to a group of diseases of the eye disease in which nerve damage eyes (nervus opticus) located behind the eye and result in decreased peripheral vision (peripheral) and ended with blindness.

In most people, nerve damage to the eyes is caused by increased pressure within the eyeball as due to barriers to the circulation of the fluid stream or eyeball (clear fluid which carries oxygen, sugar and nutrient/other important nutrients to the eye and also to maintain the shape of the eyeball). In most patients the nervous eye damage can also be caused by a lack of blood supply to the vital network of nerve weakness, opticus structure of a nerve or a nerve network of health problems.

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness and defective vision in all parts of the world. 2 the most common type of glaucoma is Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma (POAG) and Acute angle/glaukoma/chronic closed angle glaucoma angle glaucoma/closed. Another type is the Normal Tension Glaucoma include congenital glaucoma, pigmentary glaucoma, and secondary glaucoma.

Different populations tend to suffer different types of glaucoma. In General, the people of Africa and Asia higher risk for suffering from glaucoma and lost his sight than white people and glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in Asia.

What happened to Glaucoma?

Increased pressure within the eye (intraocular pressure) is one of the causes of the occurrence of neurological damage to the eye (nervus opticus) and shows that there is interference with the fluid in the eye too. This can be caused by eye that produces fluid too fluid, not flowing properly through the existing facilities to get out of the eye (trabecular meshwork tissue) or the angle formed between the cornea and the iris is shallow or closed so clog/block fluid drainage from the eye.

Most people who suffer from glaucoma but still have the pressure inside the eyeball normally, the cause of this kind of type of glaucoma is estimated to be a connection with lack of blood circulation in the eye, spinal/nerve opticus. Although glaucoma is more common as we get older, Glaucoma can occur at any age. The risk to suffer glaucoma glaucoma disease history were in the family (heredity), ethnicity, diabetes, migraine, couldn't see much (people with myopia), the injuries of the eye, blood pressure medications, the use of cortisone (steroids).