The glaucoma monitoring blog 773

Glaucoma is often described as the “silent thief of sight,” but that phrase can make the disease sound simpler than it is. In practice, glaucoma diagnosis is rarely based on a single abnormal number or one suspicious-looking scan. It is a pattern-recognition exercise built from several pieces of evidence: the pressure inside the eye, the appearance of the optic nerve, the thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer, the patient’s visual field, corneal thickness, age, family