Procedural treatments: Surgery in end-stage glaucoma

Abstract

End-stage glaucoma is a term used to describe glaucoma that has reached a stage of extreme or near total-vision loss; however, there is no universally accepted formal definition. One definition implies that patients with end-stage glaucoma have a very constricted visual field, less than 10o in diameter [1]. According to the Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study (AGIS) an AGIS visual field score of 17-20 classifies an eye as having end-stage glaucoma [2]. Others define -end-stage glaucoma based on a visual acuity (VA) of 20/200 or worse that is attributable to glaucoma [3]. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.