Еlena Komarovskikh*
Professor of Ophthalmology, Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health, Russia
*Corresponding Author: Еlena Komarovskikh, Professor of Ophthalmology, Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health, Russia.
Received: December 15, 2021; Published: April 18, 2022
Glaucoma as a disease that threatens human vision was known to Hippocrates. One of the first scientific articles in Russian language on glaucoma appeared in 1858 in the «Military Medical Journal» and belonged to the famous A. Graefe. Until 1900, several medical dissertations on glaucoma were defended, including the works of D.I. Dmitrovsky (1863), E.V. Adamyuk (1874), S.S. Golovin (1895) and others. Numerous works of domestic and foreign researchers treat glaucoma as a multifactorial disease with a very complex and not fully understood pathogenesis. According to the definition of the European Glaucoma Society, the diagnosis of «glaucoma» unites a large group of eye diseases with different etiologies, the characteristic symptoms of which are an increased intraocular pressure (IOP) beyond the level tolerant of the optic nerve and retina, the development of glaucoma optic neuropathy followed by atrophy of the optic nerve head and the occurrence of characteristic visual field defects.
Citation: Еlena Komarovskikh. “Results of Studies of Primary Glaucoma in the Indigenous Inhabitants of Siberia".Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 5.5 (2022): 34-36.
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