October 2020– date –

Eye drops that lower eye pressure have long been used as the first-line treatment for glaucoma and ocular hypertension. However, rather than that, it is more effective to perform selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) first: The results o...

○ People with good eyesight (= farsighted people) may have an acute glaucoma attack.○ For people diagnosed with glaucoma, there are medicines that cannot be used (contraindicated). Depending on the characteristics of your eyes, there are...

At Kyushu University’s graduate school I majored in immunology and earned my degree (Medical Institute of Bioregulation).It became an opportunity to think about retinal disease from the perspective of immunology. Medical retina (care of ...

Cover one eye and check how things look. Glaucoma causes noticeable symptoms only after it has progressed considerably.(In other words, most people have no symptoms, such as missing areas in their vision.) Even if the visual field of one...