ABSTRACT
Glaucoma is a diagnosis that may be readily and perhaps too frequently made based upon a variety of clinical findings by different eye-care professionals. Congenital glaucoma presents in the newborn, and typical patients with glaucoma due to the exfoliation syndrome are usually in their seventh or eighth decade of life. Observation of progression is really the key to diagnosing the optic nerve disease of glaucoma. There are many optic nerve diseases that comprise a single event leading to damage and never progress or change over the remainder of the patient’s lifetime. Primary open-angle glaucoma is the most common of the glaucomas and affects an estimated 60 million people worldwide, and at least half of them are unaware that they have the disease. Glaucoma thus comprises a group of diseases encompassing a broad spectrum of clinical presentations, etiologies, and treatment modalities.
