Clinical Evaluation of Glaucoma Patient

In a general ophthalmic practice majority of patients who are diagnosed as glaucoma or glaucoma suspects do not present with complaints related to glaucoma but are picked up in the clinic during their routine eye check-up or when they come for their glass prescription including presbyopic glasses. A high index of suspicion is therefore the key to pick up patients with glaucoma before they become symptomatic. In these days of ‘cataract hunting’ it is not uncommon for people to miss obvious glaucoma-related eye changes and seeing only a cataract. By the time the patients with primary chronic glaucoma are symptomatic reversing the symptoms is not possible at this present time. Early diagnosis and prevention of disability is therefore the key in management of glaucoma.