This type of glaucoma is also known as acute glaucoma or narrow angle glaucoma. It is much more rare and is very different from open-angle glaucoma in that the eye pressure usually rises very quickly.
Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma (POAG) is the most common form of glaucoma, affecting about three million Americans. It happens when the eye’s drainage canals become clogged over time.
The abnormal formation of new blood vessels on the iris and over the eye’s drainage channels can cause this form of secondary 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.
My eye doctor wants to perform a laser iridotomy on my eye because I have narrow angles. I don’t have glaucoma, so why do I need to have this procedure done?
Glaucoma specialists take pictures of the optic nerve in order to measure damage to this important cable that connects your eye to your brain.
Learn about the difference between cataracts and glaucoma — two of the most common vision-threatening conditions that are both leading causes of blindness worldwide.
Stress does not cause glaucoma, but stress can affect you in various ways. We can’t always control the stressors in our lives, but we can control how the stress affects us.
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