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What does Glaucoma do?
glaucoma makes you permanently blind.
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What is a glaucoma?
Glaucoma is an eye disease that leads to damage to the optic nerve in the eye and causes varying degrees of vision loss. The early stages of vision loss are often very subtle and can usually be...
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What is glaucoma?
Glaucoma is a group of diseases of the optic nerve involving loss of retinal ganglion cells in a characteristic pattern of optic neuropathy. Although raised intraocular pressure is a significant risk...
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How do you get glaucoma?
You can either be born with glaucoma (congenital) and this can be the primary disease or a secondary one. In the case of it being secondary, it could for example be secondary as part of a rare...
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Can glaucoma be treated?
There are several different kinds of glaucoma, some of which respond better to treatment than others.
Open angle glaucoma is the most common. With open angle glaucoma, there are no visual...