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Its incidence following spine surgeries exceeds that after cardiothoracic surgeries. Various causes attributed to postoperative blindness include ischemic optic neuropathy, central or branch retinal artery occlusion, cortical blindness, and rarely external ocular injury.
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of adult blindness, and it is also the leading cause of preventable blindness. Most people who go blind from glaucoma are blind in at least one eye at the time of original detection, which points to the need for better early diagnosis.rogressive loss of the optic nerve fibers leads eventually to progressive loss of visual field and finally to complete loss or blindness. However, in most forms of glaucoma, a patient will not experience any symptoms until late in the disease.