Special Issue "The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Glaucoma"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (8 July 2023) | Viewed by 1089
Special Issue Editor
Interests: glaucoma; prion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness worldwide, and the number of patients with glaucoma is expected to rise to 100 million by 2030 (Tham et al. 2014). Glaucoma has a huge impact on the quality of life of the affected individuals. The disease is characterized by visual field defects, which at first are not recognized but then eventually grow larger until patients lose their ability to drive and ultimately go blind. There are several risk factors for glaucoma, including genetics, corneal thickness, age and intraocular pressure. To date, lowering intraocular pressure is the only proven treatment of the disease. It can be achieved by medication, laser or surgery. We have seen a staggering number of innovations in all fields of treatment and diagnosis in the recent years, allowing us to detect glaucoma earlier and to lower intraocular pressure more efficiently. Overall, this has led to a significant reduction blindness caused by the disease. Still, about half of glaucoma patients remain undetected (Topouzis et al. 2008), and with our current diagnostic armamentarium, we can only detect glaucoma when some degree of damage has already occurred. A better understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease will certainly help to detect new markers for an earlier detection of the disease. New treatment options must be carefully evaluated by the scientific community in order to improve their usage in everyday clinical practice. Therefore, this Special Issue invites papers addressing the pathophysiology and treatment of glaucoma.
Dr. Ewald Lindner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glaucoma
- filtering surgery
- anti-glaucoma medication
- laser ablation
- visual fields
- optic flow
- optical coherence tomography
- intraocular pressure
