Phacolytic glaucoma be incorporated in the rehabilitation process to reduce the risk of infection of the eye and to allow for an effective healing process. Additionally, the patient must consistently visit the specialist in order to ensure a successful removal of phacolytic glaucoma. There may be a need for medical therapies which treat arising issues for the eye such as inflammation. These medical therapy procedures for phacolysis consist of controlling the intraocular pressure which may include the use of topical steroids in order to decrease inflammation in the eye, and mydriatics in order to prevent the formation of synechiae. It is found
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