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Third one we're
looking at is glaucoma.
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Now glaucoma causes abnormally
high fluid pressure in the eye.
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There's two types of them,
open angle glaucoma
known as chronic glaucoma
or angle closure glaucoma,
which is called acute glaucoma.
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Pause for just a minute
is the goal here that I want
you to know the difference.
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I want you to know
for your information,
but I'm not really interested
in you memorizing these two,
but let's just talk about them.
Let's just have a conversation.
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Open angle glaucoma,
chronic glaucoma
is caused by blockage
of the channel
which the aqueous
humor usually drains.
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So if that's blocked,
fluid builds up,
that's what's causes
the extra pressure.
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Now angle closure
glaucoma or acute glaucoma
is called when there's
pressure against the lens
which traps the aqueous
humor or the liquid.
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What's the takeaway point?
Glaucoma is high fluid
pressure in the eye.
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For some reason this fluid can't
drain, pressure builds up.
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Now later on if you
become an eye specialist,
you can look at those
two different reasons,
but just know if there's
anything that impedes
the drainage of the
fluid in your eye,
you're going to have
elevated pressures
and you're going to
have vision problems.
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They're going to start
to look like this.
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Can you imagine trying to read a
book, watch TV, drive a car,
if this is the lens you had to look
through every day because of glaucoma.
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See visual pictures while I don't
want the patient to understand
what each one of these
diseases are in detail.
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I do want them to
understand that their risk
for their vision to be
significantly impacted.