HRT

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

HRT a new way of examining the optic nerve in Glaucoma.

At Angeles Vision Clinic we are always looking for better ways to determine if an individual definitely has glaucoma and, if so, is our treatment stabilizing the damage to the optic nerve.  Your eye care provider can get a good idea of the amount of cupping in an optic nerve by looking at it with an instrument known as an ophthalmoscope. They can get an idea of whether the cupping is remaining stable or worsening by taking a series of photographs over time. But these methods have an important limitation. They can only suggest how big the cup is in the same way that an ordinary aerial photograph of a crater could can give us only a rough idea of how deep the crater is. We can get a much better idea of the depth of the cup or crater by taking a stereoscopic photograph. This would allow us actually to measure just how much the optic nerve has been damaged.