Glaucoma.

Authors :: Spry, Paul
Harper, Robert
Source :: Optician. 2/15/2008, Vol. 235 Issue 6139, p22-36. 8p. 10 Color Photographs, 3 Charts.
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: The article offers information on glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that involve progressive optic neuropathy. The clinical features of glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) include abnormalities of the neuroretinal rim and disc haemorrhages. Glaucomas are a leading cause of visual morbidity throughout the world and it is expected that there will be 60.5 million cases of glaucoma by the year 2010.