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Abstract #117753 Published in IGR 24-4

Systemic Diseases in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

Voigt AM; Grabitz S; Hoffmann EM; Schuster AK
Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde 2024; 241: 170-176


Primary open-angle glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease with progressive chronic optic neuropathy and corresponding visual field defects. In this literature review, we discuss systemic diseases and their mechanism for developing glaucoma, including systemic hypertension and hypotension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome, chronic kidney disease, migraine, and polypharmacy.

Augenklinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland.

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