The finnish evidence-based guideline for open-angle glaucoma

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Abstract

In most patients, chronic open-angle glaucoma is a slowly progressive disease. Eyes with very high intraocular pressure (IOP > 30 mmHg) represent an exception to this and should be treated and followed extremely intensively. As lowering IOP is, so far, the only means of treating glaucoma, the majority of research reports deal with the IOP-lowering effect of the treatment. The primary goal of treatment, however, is to prevent glaucomatous damage to the structures and function of the eye. The effectiveness of treatment is monitored with optic disc and retinal nerve fibre layer imaging and with visual field examinations. If the glaucomatous changes are progressing, more effective treatment should be given. In the course of follow-up, it should be noted that the changes in the optic nerve structure and function appear and progress at different time-points with delays of up to several years. The assessment of abnormalities is dependent on the examination method and requires a great deal of experience on the part of the examiner. The important risk factors in glaucoma are elevated IOP (even if IOP is within normal range in half of patients ), age, positive family history, exfoliation, race and myopia.

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Tuulonen, A., Airaksinen, P. J., Erola, E., Forsman, E., Friberg, K., Kaila, M., … Vainio-Jylhä, E. (2003). The finnish evidence-based guideline for open-angle glaucoma. Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica, 81(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00021.x

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