by Dr. Paul Karpecki | Aug 21, 2020 | Practice Pearls, Relating to Your Patients
Increasing awareness among glaucoma patients undergoing cataract surgery There are about 3 million people over the age of 40 diagnosed with glaucoma in the U.S. It is one of the top two leading causes of blindness in this patient population, and the number is expected...
by Smitha Gopal | Jan 14, 2016 | Relating to Your Patients
If there were a disease that affected millions of people of every age and ethnicity, was a leading cause of blindness, yet was preventable, everyone would know about it, right? Wrong. In fact, glaucoma is that disease. According to the National Eye Institute (NEI), of...