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To the pros: What can you see?

Question:

On 12 Apr 1998 10:35:32 GMT, halt…@aol.com (Halterb) wrote: >I’ve been wondering just what a specialist can see when looking at a patient’s >eye. In my case, with mild open-angle glaucoma,

What does "with mild open-angle glaucoma" mean in your case, where you say you have no sight loss and don’t mention any objective anomaly pathognomonic of glaucoma, while claiming you had high IOPs in the past but none for a long time.  An MD’s once saying you had "it" doesn’t brand as actually having it, such that one must thereafter necessarily see evidence therefor.  Maybe the MD had "it" and didn’t look at you right. >can anything suggesting the >cause be seen?

First, can anything be seen suggesting "its" actual *existence*? >Such as scar tissue in the meshwork, or a twisted canal, or >drainage entries that are smaller than normal, or a lens that is too large, or >an iris in an unfavorable position, or blood vessels too large (or too small), >or inflamation, or just how open the angle is, or anything else?

If real, disk cupping, nerve loss at the rims, irregular, discolored disks. >The answer would be helpful.

Objectivity would be helpful. Ray (Which came first — the problem or the word for it?)

Response:

I’ve been wondering just what a specialist can see when looking at a patient’s eye. In my case, with mild open-angle glaucoma, can anything suggesting the cause be seen? Such as scar tissue in the meshwork, or a twisted canal, or drainage entries that are smaller than normal, or a lens that is too large, or an iris in an unfavorable position, or blood vessels too large (or too small), or inflamation, or just how open the angle is, or anything else? The answer would be helpful.

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