The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by glaucoma (glaucoma):
Eyes and eye appendages (H00-H59).
- Blindness
- Severe limitation of the ability to see
Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)
- Cerebral microinfarcts (WML, “white matter lesions”) [with an increase in visual field defects, in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and normotensive eye pressures].
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Propensity to fall
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) causes neurodegeneration of all parts of the visual pathway:
- Retina – loss of retinal ganglion cells, astrocytes and axons/III. Neuron
- Corpus geniculatum laterale (CGL; nuclear area in the metathalamus of the diencephalon below the pulvinar and, as such, part of the visual pathway) – decrease in CGL neurons.
- Visual radiation – axon loss (IV neuron).
- Visual cortex – atrophy of the visual cortex.
