Debate: That We Should Eliminate the Term 'Normal Tension Glaucoma' Position: Con (Video)

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Identifier 20150226_nanos_neurologyofglaucoma1_09
Title Debate: That We Should Eliminate the Term 'Normal Tension Glaucoma' Position: Con (Video)
Creator Robert Ritch
Affiliation New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Subject Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy; Intraocular Pressure; Lamina Cribrosa; Ocular Biomechanics
Description It took years of arguing before getting people to drop glaucoma from every other entity. People never said 'neovascular ocular hypertension' or 'chronic angleclosure ocular hypertension'. We know very well now that IOP exists on a continuum, and there is no dividing line between one mmHg and another. We define glaucoma without using the term IOP. We know that IOP is not the disease itself, as once thought, but a risk factor, albeit the most important known risk factor and to date, the only
Date 2015-02-26
Language eng
Format video/mp4
Type Image/MovingImage
Source 2015 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS Annual Meeting 2015 The Neurology of Glaucoma
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NANOS Annual Meeting Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/nanos-annual-meeting-collection/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2015. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj1tjz
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