Glaucoma is a very common ocular disorder. In recent timeslot of improvement has occurred in the management of every ocular disease and glaucoma is not lagging behind. Now we have subspecialties in ophthalmology and we have glaucoma experts. Also, lot improvement Glaucoma has occurred both in medical and surgical management.
This has become possible due to research and better drugs and surgical procedures. The problem in glaucoma is one type of glaucoma which is chronic simple glaucoma in this entity patient does not have mild to a moderate headache and the slow rise of iop in this type of glaucoma may not be noticed till pt becomes almost blind. As it is neurodegeneration of optic nerve so what one can do we should do screening of every patient after 40 years of age by measuring iop refraction and funduscopy by this screening we can pick up cases of raised iop also pts with family…
