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Undisturbed, glaucoma blinds people. It respects neither gender nor education; it ignores wealth and privilege. We have no cure for it and we cannot reverse the damage that it has caused. Glaucoma affects about 2% of people over 40 years of age. It is not rare. It is the commonest cause of irreversible and preventable visual disability everywhere.
But most of the time we can control it. The earlier glaucoma is diagnosed, the less damage that has been caused, the better the long-term outlook.
Early detection requires informed communities whose members seek eye examinations as well as knowledgeable and appropriately equipped eye health care professionals. This requires access to a worthwhile health system.
Even in developed societies, about 50% of patients with glaucoma have not been diagnosed and are not on treatment. Half of these undiagnosed people have been seen by an eye health care practitioner in the last two years.
With this book, we wish to enlighten our readers with quality information to minimise visual disability from glaucoma.
About the author
Ivan Goldberg is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Head of the Glaucoma Unit, Sydney Eye Hospital and the Director, Eye Associates, Sydney Australia. Hehas an active interest in patient care, teaching, clinical research and developing professional associations and has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers, 30Editorials and 30 books or chapters in books. Goldberg is Vice-President and Immediate Past President of Glaucoma Australia. He is Immediate Past President of the Asia Pacific Glaucoma Society and the Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Interest Group, a past President of the World Glaucoma Association and of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists and is an Active Member of the Glaucoma Research Society.For his work in glaucoma nationally and internationally,Ivan Goldberg has been honoured with Medal of the Order of Australia, with the International Scholar Award of the American Glaucoma Society, with the Robert Ritch Award of the Glaucoma Foundation of New York, with the Bartisch Medal from the University of Dresden, by the University of Sao Paulo and with honorary memberships of the Philippine and South African Glaucoma Societies.
