PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | open-angle glaucoma |
| Phenotype | C0029124|optic nerve atrophy |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23940414 | Effective intraocular pressure (iop) lowering appears to be the most common way to slow retinal ganglion cell apoptosis and optic nerve atrophy in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (poag).1 iop lowering is achieved by one or more parameters of aqueous humor (ah) dynamics, including reducing ah production or increasing ah outflow through the trabecular meshwork (tm) or through the uveoscleral pathway. |
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