Abstract

IN this issue of the Journal, Drance, Morgan and Sweeney call attention to the fact that shock is a feature of the past medical history in an appreciable number of patients with low-tension glaucoma. Furthermore, they have noted that few of these patients with a history of shock show progression of loss of visual field.It has long been recognized that loss of visual field and cupping and pallor of the optic disk can occur without increased ocular pressure. To explain the phenomenon of low-tension glaucoma, it has been postulated that development of optic-nerve atrophy is dependent on the . . .

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