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How Do We Enhance Glaucoma Screening and Reduce Glaucoma Related Blindness?

Annamalai Odayappan1, Srinivasan Kavitha1, Sivagami Nachiappan2 and Rengaraj Venkatesh2*
1Department of Glaucoma, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India
2Department of General Ophthalmology, Indira Gandhi Govt. General Hospital and Post Graduate Institute, Pondicherry, India
*Corresponding Author : Rengaraj Venkatesh, Department of Glaucoma, Chief Medical Officer, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India, Email: venkatesh@aravind.org

Received Date: Apr 26, 2021 / Accepted Date: May 10, 2021 / Published Date: May 17, 2021

Abstract

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and this burden has been projected to increase significantly in the years to come.Therefore, various steps need to be taken to tackle this problem and reduce the magnitude of blindness in the community. Screening the general population may not be feasible for glaucoma due to various reasons. This implies that we need to know who the high-risk population is so that we can do a targeted screening. The various risk factors described to be associated with delayed presentation includes older age, African-Caribbean individuals, female gender, socio-economic deprivation, poor literacy, unemployment, rural residence-greater distance from the hospital, patients referred by non-optometrists and presentation with symptoms.The prevalence of primary glaucomas is also greater among family members of known glaucoma patients. An appropriate action would be to screen people with such high-risk factors and thus diagnose glaucoma early. The other major concerns include maintaining patient’s compliance to treatment and identification of progression early. Detailed oral counselling and use of modern technology to create awareness have been suggested as aids in maintaining the follow-up. Here, we review the ways of how we could enhance glaucoma screening and maintain long-term follow up, patient care.

Keywords: Glaucoma; Optic neuropathy; Glaucomatous damage; Loss of vision

Citation: Odayappan A, Kavitha S, Nachiappan S, Venkatesh R (2021) How Do We Enhance Glaucoma Screening and Reduce Glaucoma Related Blindness? Optom Open Access 6:144.

Copyright: © 2021 Odayappan A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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