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

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 one inarguably proven to modify outcomes when treated.