Category: Questions about glaucoma
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How glaucoma operation is performed?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Treatments for glaucoma There are different ways to operate on glaucoma, which are briefly described below: Laser treatment Laser rays are used in a variety of ways to treat cataracts. Argon laser This type of laser is used to open holes in the trabecular mesentery. This operation is called ALT and SLT operation. This…
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How open angle glaucoma is treated?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How is open angle glaucoma treated? The treatment of this disease depends on the stage at which the patient comes to the doctor. Nowadays laser treatment is first choice treatment at early stage of the diseases. Most patients can be successfully treated with a laser. By application of laser we open the closed pores…
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Is glaucoma really incurable?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It is commonly said that glaucoma cannot be cured and even if it is treated, the treatment fails! Is this true? There are actually many types of glaucoma, some of which are actually almost incurable. But the most important thing is at what stage of the disease the treatment was started! If treament started…
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How can I know that I have glaucoma or not?
Are there any symptoms of glaucoma? Because there are different types of glaucoma, the symptoms are related to the question that what type of glaucoma is present in the patient you are talking about. To understand the symptoms and treatment, glaucoma is divided into two categories, which are as follows: Narrow angle glaucoma Open angle…
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What is glaucoma?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is a disease which is a major cause of blindness in many people. Glaucoma damages the optic nerve which transmits visual signals to the brain. In fact, the nerves that carry information from the retina to the brain stop working. The most important mechanism of this damage to optic nerve…
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What is the basic defect in open angle glaucoma?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why does this disease occur? What is wrong with the eye? At the junction of both the cornea and the iris is formed a sieve called the trabecular meshwork. The picture below shows this sieve. In different patients, due to various reasons, the holes of this sieve become closed, which obstructs the drainage of…
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Symptoms of open angle glaucoma
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What are the symptoms of this type of glaucoma? This type of glaucoma is extremely dangerous. A large of patients are present in our society but most of them have not been diagnosed. The most dangerous aspect about this disease is that even though the disease has progressed considerably, the patient does not have…
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What is the basic fault in narrow angle glaucoma?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why does this disease occur? What is wrong with the eye? There is a filter at the junction of the cornea and the iris. It is forms a sieve which is called the trabecular meshwork. There is a system at this place that drains the material from the eye to the blood vessels. For…
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Symptoms of narrow angle glaucoma: a type of glaucoma
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Symtoms of this type of glaucoma The symptoms of this type of glaucoma vary from patient to patient. Because the symptoms depend on the patient’s stage of the disease. In addition, some of the symptoms are those that can be seen only with the use of various instruments and there are many of the…