Understanding Open Angle Glaucoma

This video contains an explanation of open-angle glaucoma, aimed at helping students of medicine and healthcare professionals prepare for exams.

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[StringBand]

Wonderful tutorial. Great illustrations. Straight to the point. Concise, well laid out. This retired cardiac RN found this video a much easier-to-understand resource than many websites I visited in educating myself to understand my open-angle glaucoma

[ryantatton]

These videos are brilliant. Thank you for all you're doing for the rising generation of physicians!

[dailyDIYdude]

WOW!!! I’m 43 and have had Open angle glaucoma since the age of 15. 28 years later I now know all the lingo my doctors talk. Unfortunately I’m really starting to see my Peripheral vision disappear. I actually take every eye drop you mentioned in your video. I’ve had the a couple surgeries as well to no avail. My tube shunt didn’t take or the other one you mentioned unfortunately. The bubble wouldn’t stay up. I’m assuming at some point I’ll be blind. Im very optimistic though and don’t really let if effort me in any negative way. Thanks for such a great video.

[bismihamsa]

This topic was covered in my college by 4 hr lectures and this is just a 10 min
And includes everything, So satisfying....❤❤

[omibosmia_]

I gathered information, notes, ppt's but none of them work for me and at this moment I learnt it from you and all my doubts cleared off and the notes link in description also helped me.
Thank you Zero to Finals!

[meliketopaloglu]

Previously never understood cupping mechanism, this was GOLD, really appreciate it 👌🏽🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[kirtishukla]

Thanks a lot for this amazing video. The clarity of concept you're delivering is impeccable.

[nondescript]

gosh this helped so much, i felt so lost. thank you for including simple diagrams it really helps understand

[MFP]

I am a layman who wanted more information about open-angle glaucoma. This was presented so I could understand it. Thank you.

[Juju-bjwh]

Why can't our professors be that simple, clear, and easy ?!
Thank you so much

[theVoid]

I just found out I had this a few months ago. I went for an eye exam after 4 years because I really needed a new pair of glasses. They checked the pressure 4 different times because it was unusually high. It was sitting right at 21-24 each time. The doctor started me on Brimonidine drops right away and a low dose of that every day was enough to bring it down to 14-16. Luckily, they are now bringing me back for regular visual field tests and pressure checks, and so far everything is normal. It scared the shit out of me though. I don't want to go blind.

[lucycesar]

Thank you so much for this. Much easier to read glaucoma now that i understand what is going on

[andreas]

Thank you very much for this explanation. In my case the pressure was initially measured at 45 up to 47 only in the left eye. It was really a surprise to me that this was substantially larger that what is considered an increased pressure, since I see that even 30 is considered high.

[swardian]

amazing! In our slides it is only written what medications to use but not what their effect on the anatomy/physiology are. Thanks a lot for that!!

[okereobinna]

I appreciate how simply this was explained. I must say it was very helpful. Thank you!

[antohosm]

A superb video which is of real use to the lay person who takes a scientific interest in his/her condition.
I have suffered with this inherited disease for over 20 years and had a very successful left eye trabeculectomy 2 years ago. As a consequence I now only use Cosopt and Travatan in my right eye.
Ophthalmologists are amazing surgeons given the micro-techniques employed!

[binaasif]

Excellent explanation ! you have made concepts so easy to understand

Thank you

[abdulazeezsheikh-]

Explained in a very elaborating manner please. Worth watching. Thanks.

[aysha-simonebrown]

thank you for the amazing content! It's greatly appreciated. Everything is clear, concise and thorough. The graphics are super effective!

[smileflower]

THIS IS GREAT! I WISH I FOUND THIS CHANNEL EARLIER