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Glaucoma needs multifactorial optic neuropathy treatment
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KOLOA, Hawaii — Preserving the optic nerve in glaucoma patients is at least as important as lowering intraocular pressure (IOP), according to one specialist.
"Although we have always known that the optic nerve is important, we are now more directly concerned with optic nerve health and with thinking of glaucoma as a multifactorial optic neuropathy. We have this multifactorial disease with multifaceted mechanisms for nerve death, yet we have tended to treat glaucoma, and still do primarily, as a monofactorial disease, which has truly not been adequate," said Louis B. Cantor, MD, here at Hawaii 2001, the Royal Hawaiian Eye Meeting, sponsored by Ocular Surgery News in conjunction with the New England Eye Center.
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