Glaucoma

What is Glaucoma ?

An eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness).

Risk factors

Risk Factors

There is a greater likelihood that a person will develop glaucoma if they have one or more of the following risk factors:

* Over the age of 40
* Raised pressure (IOP) inside the eye
* Family history , First degree relatives of glaucoma sufferers, have an 8x risk of developing glaucoma
* Myopic
* Diabetes / High blood pressure
* Suffered trauma to the eye

For more information please visit http://www.glaucoma.org.nz or http://www.savesightsociety.org.nz.

Additional consultation available at Visique Kapiti Eyecare using a Medmont Visual Field Analyser to measures peripheral (side) vision that let us determine any subtle changes within the visual field and enables us to diagnose and monitor eye diseases like glaucoma or to indicate more serious disease associated with eyes and vision to investigate neurological problems . This device is one of two commonly used perimeters in Australia and in many parts of Asia It maps the incremental light threshold of the visual field and describes the sensitivity at each point in ‘decibels’ (dB).



Video credit to : ExpertVillage , www.vancouvervision.com , Dr Raj Patel