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A member asked:
With 30 percent optic nerve damage should treatment be provided by a glaucoma specialist or is an ophthalmologist able to provide same treatment?
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Depends: If your pressure is now well controlled, and repeated testing shows no further damage, then you are fine with your general ophthalmologist.
Answered 6/1/2019
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Either: A general ophthmologist can treat same as a glaucoma specialist, who is also an ophthalmologist.
Answered 6/1/2019
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Ophthalmologist: A comprehensive ophthalmologist should be able to treat you apppropriately. A 30% loss of optic nerve fibers is typically a mild form pf glaucoma as up to 50% of the nerve fibers can be lost prior to visual field loss.
Answered 6/1/2019
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