From the target pressure to the individual normalocular pressure, a step forward in the glaucoma treatment

Oftalmologia. 2012;56(2):21-4.

Abstract

Glaucoma today has sophisticated means of diagnosis and a range of complex treatment modalities. Despite these recent acquisitions this disease continues to send to darkness in an annual pace, millions of individuals worldwide. Somewhere diagnosis and treatment is occurring delayed, or have lost their adequacy and their fine tuning. Finding and obtaining individual normal IOP of each eye with glaucoma may be the saving solution.

MeSH terms

  • Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Disease Progression
  • Glaucoma / diagnosis
  • Glaucoma / physiopathology
  • Glaucoma / surgery
  • Glaucoma / therapy*
  • Glaucoma, Open-Angle / therapy
  • Humans
  • Intraocular Pressure* / drug effects
  • Quality of Life
  • Risk Factors
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antihypertensive Agents