Glaucoma as an interdisciplinary problem
Ekusheva Evgeniya Viktorovna - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Nervous Diseases and Neurorehabilitation of the Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Federal Scientific and Clinical Center of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia
Ilmira Rifovna Gazizova - MD, PhD, Scientific Secretary of the N.P. Bekhtereva Institute of the Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ophthalmologist of the AKO clinic of the Institute of the Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Secretary of the Russian Geographical Society, member of the Expert Council of the Russian Geographical Society, member of the Cooperation Committee of the EGO
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What is this video about?
Glaucoma is one of the most insidious and socially significant diseases leading to irreversible blindness. Despite its prevalence, many patients and even doctors underestimate its danger. In this video, leading experts in the field of neurology and ophthalmology - Evgeniya Viktorovna Yekusheva and Ilmira Rifovna Gazizova - analyze glaucoma not only as an eye disease, but also as a systemic neurodegenerative disease.
Key topics for discussion:
Glaucoma is more than just an eye pressure problem
- Why is glaucoma considered a neurodegenerative disease?
- How is optic nerve damage related to changes in the brain?
- Open-angle and closed-angle glaucoma: what is the fundamental difference?
Why is glaucoma so often missed?
- Asymptomatic course: how a patient can lose vision without noticing anything.
- Acute attack of glaucoma: how to distinguish it from migraine or hypertensive crisis?
- Key symptoms that should alert a doctor of any specialty.
Glaucoma and systemic diseases
- Link to hypertension, diabetes, atherosclerosis: how vascular pathologies accelerate vision loss.
- Why should patients with diabetes have regular eye exams?
- How does chronic cerebral ischemia affect the progression of glaucoma?
Modern diagnostic methods
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and other optic nerve imaging technologies.
- Why is measuring intraocular pressure not enough?
- How does neuroimaging (MRI, PET-CT) help in assessing brain damage in glaucoma?
Treatment: from antihypertensive therapy to neuroprotection
- Is it possible to stop the progression of glaucoma?
- The role of drugs with neuroprotective action (using the drug Mexidol as an example).
- Why an interdisciplinary approach is important: joint work of an ophthalmologist, neurologist and therapist.
Practical recommendations for doctors
- Which patient groups are at high risk?
- Is it possible to preserve vision if glaucoma has already been diagnosed?
Who is this video for?
- Doctors (ophthalmologists, neurologists, therapists, endocrinologists) who want to better understand the pathogenesis of glaucoma and modern approaches to treatment.
Why is it worth watching?
- Expert level: speakers are practicing specialists with extensive clinical experience.
- Latest data: an analysis of the latest research and clinical guidelines.
- Practical benefits: clear diagnostic and treatment algorithms that can be applied in work.
Don't miss the opportunity to learn how modern medicine is fighting one of the main causes of blindness!