Glaucoma

Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness in the world and the most common cause of irreversible blindness. Various prevalence studies have estimated 60.5 million people with open angle and angle closure glaucoma by 2010 which will be 79.6 million by 2020.

Glaucoma is the “silent sneak of sight” .It includes a large group of disorders where raised intraocular pressure is the main risk factor which then affects the optic nerve and thereby causes visual loss in a slow insidious manner. Therefore early detection with a high index of suspicion can be of value to prevent visual loss.

The glaucoma services are geared up to combat the various types of glaucoma with congenital glaucoma, primary glaucoma ,secondary glaucoma and various other refractory glaucomas which are usually very resistant to treatment.

The comprehensive eye check up with a thorough history taking, slit lamp examination, IOP by a well calibrated applanation tonometer, gonioscopy with the help of a indentation gonioscope and a dilated fundus examination with the help a+90 D,+78D,+60D facilitates a detailed glaucoma evaluation. The glaucoma services is also equipped with the state of art equipment like Humphrey field Analyzer, and the Optical coherence tomography that can pick up subtle nerve fibre damage at an earlier stage.

The presence of YAG laser has simplified the management of angle closure glaucoma and the assistance of 532nm green laser helps in tackling various aspects in the management of glaucoma.

The various surgical procedures with guarded filtration surgery on one hand and glaucoma drainage devices for refractory glaucoma, and trabeculectomy and trabeculotomy for congenital glaucoma are being performed at our centre.

The counseling about the disease process and medications as well as the newly acquired low vision services makes the glaucoma services compact and complete.