Departments

Department of Glaucoma

What is glaucoma?

The glaucoma is a group of important eye diseases which affect approximately 2% of the population. It is a disease which leads to blindness if not diagnosed and treated early on. Prevention in this particular disease is of the outmost importance.

So glaucoma is a serious, chronic, progressive disease of the optic nerve and the nerve fiber layer of the eye which leads to morphological changes of the optic nerve and the visual field.

Let us picture the nerve fiber layer as many “wires” which connect at one point and make up a "cable", the optic nerve. In glaucoma, the initial lesions appear on the optic fibers and subsequently move to the optic nerve. It is a sly disease because it has no symptoms (with the exception of some types of glaucoma, like acute glaucoma) and when the first symptoms appear, the lesions are extended and unfortunately, irreversible.

It is a disease whose progress we can control with the right therapeutic treatment.