Keeping the Pressure Off: A Holistic Approach to Proactive Glaucoma Care
‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ or, in the case of glaucoma, potentially multiple mmHg of intraocular pressure (IOP) control. Glaucoma touches over 200,000 Australians,1and costs us AU$4.3 billion per year.2However, despite the high prevalence and cost burden, glaucoma management often begins only after measurable disease progression, and often remains focussed on IOP control alone. Drs Daniel Liu and Brian Ang present an alternate, proactive model of glauco