View Video Animations about Glaucoma In order to view the
content, you must install the Adobe Flash Player. Please click
here to get started. What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is a disease
caused by elevated intraocular pressure (IOP). The elevated IOP
damages and destroys the axons of the optic nerve, leading to
progressive blindness. Does glaucoma occur in young people? The
number of younger people (under 35 to 40 years) with glaucoma
has been vastly underestimated in the past. A major reason for
this is that for a long time, ophthalmologists as well as
patients have thought of glaucoma as a disease with variations.
However, realizing that glaucoma represents a final common
pathway resulting from a number of different conditions which
can affect the eye, it should be almost a priori that some of
these conditions would affect infants, children, adolescents,
and young adults. What is congenital glaucoma? CONGENITAL
glaucoma, or INFANTILE glaucoma, affects about 1 in 10,000 live
births. It may occur without other fin