Primary glaucoma

The most important medical and social problem in modern ophthalmology is the early diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. Despite the known advances in the diagnosis and treatment of this disease, it remains one of the main causes of irreversible vision loss in people around the world. In the 70s of the last century, the total number of patients with glaucoma in the world was about 20 million (Nesterov A.P., 2007). At the moment, their number has increased to 105 million, and, according to WHO forecasts, by 2030. it can double (Kuroedov A.V., Gorodnichiy V.V., 2007). In Russia in 2003, about 800 thousand patients with glaucoma were registered (Kuroedov A.V., Gorodnichiy V.V., 2007). Glaucoma took the 1st place in the structure of blindness and primary visual disability (Libman E.S., Chumaeva E.A., 2004; Son I.M., Kalininskaya A.A., Sergeeva E.S., Chernenko E. .G., 2009).