Eye and systemic diseases
 M Pache, J Flammer: A Sick Eye in a Sick Body? Systemic Findings in Patients with Primary Open-angle Glaucoma |
Most of the publications shown on this webpage point out that glaucoma is a disease which does not only affect the eye in isolation. Rather, it is a systemic disease, which manifests itself mainly in the eye and there mainly in the optic nerve. Pache and Flammer have summarized the described systemic changes in glaucoma and speak of a sick eye in a sick body. |