Course: Normal Tension Glaucoma, Section: Learning objectives

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Course Summary

Gus Gazzard & Polly Dulley (Part 1 – 19:15; Part 2 – 12:31)

Polly Dulley talks to Gus Gazzard, a consultant specializing in glaucoma and cataracts at Moorfields, about normal tension glaucoma. Worldwide, glaucoma is the second-leading cause of blindness after cataracts, affecting one in 200 people under the age of fifty, and one in ten people over eighty. Most kinds of glaucoma involve damage to the optic nerve associated with elevated intraocular pressure, but this is not the case with normal tension glaucoma. Less is known about this form of glaucoma, also known as normal pressure glaucoma or low tension glaucoma, despite it representing a significant proportion of glaucoma cases. This interview is split into two parts: the first part focuses on how the disease differs from other forms of glaucoma; in the second part, Polly asks Gus about treatment options.

First published in DOCET OQ84 (2012).

Learning objectives

To provide listeners with:

An outline of the effects and prevalence of normal tension glaucoma
An understanding of how normal tension glaucoma affects the patient
An outline of the causes of the condition
An outline of the development of the disease
An understanding of how normal tension glaucoma differs from other forms of the disease
An outline of the treatment options for normal tension glaucoma