Phacolytic glaucoma that with most cases, of phacolytic glaucoma post surgery patients are not exposed to many further obstacles in the healing process which therefore avoids the need for medication. Although, it is mostly encouraged that patients take antiglaucoma medication in order to deter the possibility of glaucoma and inflammation implicating the eye. One of these medications include eye drops which contain prostaglandin analogs. Prostaglandin analogs aim to lower intraocular pressure which thereby avoids inflammation to ensure an efficient healing process after cataract removal. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (CAI) in the form of pills, disables the production of the sodium pump in the
Normal tension glaucoma of cases that have been reported in medical literature in the 1980s and 1990s who had the typical signs of glaucomatous damage, like optic nerve head excavation and thinning of the retinal nerve fiber layer, while these patients had an IOP that would generally have been regarded as "normal". It is now widely estimated that a larger percentage of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) are suffering from normal tension glaucoma: probably half of all POAG patients in Europe and the majority of POAG patients in East Asia. Among Americans of Japanese descent, for instance, the prevalence of NTG is