| Acute glaucoma
Glaucoma (glah-CO-muh) is an eye disease characterized by higher-than-normal pressure inside your eye. The pressure can increase gradually or suddenly, slightly or dramatically, and for various reasons, depending on the type of glaucoma.
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| Chronic glaucoma
Glaucoma (glah-CO-muh) is an eye disease characterized by higher-than-normal pressure inside your eye. The pressure can increase gradually or suddenly, slightly or dramatically, and it may occur for various reasons, depending on the type of glaucoma.
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| Glaucoma treatment
Glaucoma (glah-CO-muh) is sometimes called the "silent thief of vision." Once it's destroyed optic nerve fibers, no known treatment can reverse the damage, which can result in blindness.
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| Laser surgery for glaucoma
Laser surgery won't cure your glaucoma (glah-CO-muh), but in most cases it can bring eye pressure under control by improving drainage of fluid from the eye.
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| What is glaucoma?
As you age, you can become susceptible to a number of vision-related problems associated with the aging process. One of them is glaucoma (glah-CO-muh), a condition that results from increased pressure caused by fluid within the eye.
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