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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).