Five Common Glaucoma Tests
Early detection, through regular and complete eye exams, is the key to protecting your vision from damage caused by glaucoma.
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Early detection, through regular and complete eye exams, is the key to protecting your vision from damage caused by glaucoma.
If you have been diagnosed with glaucoma, chances are, you will have taken several visual field tests.
The diagnosis of glaucoma is made when your eye doctor notices a particular type of damage in the optic nerve known as cupping. This diagnostic finding can occur with or without high intraocular pressure.
Both people with and without optic nerve damage have optic nerve cupping, although those with glaucoma tend to have a greater cup-to-disc ratio. A cup to disc ratio greater than six-tenths is generally considered to be suspicious for glaucoma.
The optic nerve is the part of the eye that carries visual information from the eye to the brain. It is located at the very back of the eye just to the nose side of center. It is also the part of the eye that gets injured when someone has glaucoma.
Glaucoma specialists take pictures of the optic nerve in order to measure damage to this important cable that connects your eye to your brain.
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