People are always confused about what glaucoma truly is since the treatment focuses on eye pressure management and what effect it could eventually have on our quality of life.
Glaucoma refers to optic neuropathy (the disease of neuronal cells of visual function) defined as characteristic optic nerve head damage and the corresponding visual field loss. Therefore, clinical examination will focus on the optic nerve head or optic disc, located at the back of the eye, to see whether it is a glaucomatous disc or not.
