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  • Title: [The surgical treatment of normotensive glaucoma].
    Author: Shmyreva VF, Shershnev VV, Mazurova IuV.
    Journal: Vestn Oftalmol; 1998; 114(5):7-10. PubMed ID: 9865174.
    Abstract:
    The efficacy of surgical treatment of low (normal)-pressure glaucoma is validated on the basis of analysis of the disease progress risk factors. The risk factors are inadequate intraocular pressure (IOP) and insufficient blood supply to the optic nerve and retina. For stabilizing the glaucomatous process, IOP is to be reduced below 14 mm Hg. After antiglaucoma surgery, IOP decreases by 35% on average (to 13.9 mm Hg), and visual field is retained in remote period in 81.2% patients. Antiglaucoma operation with simultaneous decompression of the optic nerve results in a greater increase of visual field due to improvement of blood supply to the optic nerve and retina; visual functions are stabilized for a long time in 77.8% cases at a higher IOP (16.14 mm Hg) in patients with worse initial status. Functional results of surgery for normotensive glaucoma depend on ophthalmic tone and optic nerve and retinal hemodynamics.
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