Evaluation of the effect of osteopathic technique of drainage of venous sinuses of the skull on the structures of the posterior segment of the eye in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma
AUTHORS : Vokhmyakov1 A.V. | Egorova1 I.A. | Mokhov1 D.E. | Akopov2 E.L.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : 1St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Institute
osteopathic medicine,2 Saint Petersburg State Medical
University named after Academician I.P. Pavlova
YEAR : 2005
Until now, primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in all developed countries of the world remains one of the main causes of low vision, blindness and visual disability [5; 6].
Despite the achieved success in the treatment of glaucoma, this problem has not yet been resolved. It is known that it is much easier to achieve the normalization of
ophthalmotonus than the stabilization of visual functions [2; 5]. According to V.F. Shmyreva and V.V. Shershneva (1997), traditional conservative therapy in more than half of glaucoma patients with normalized intraocular pressure (IOP) does not provide adequate blood supply to the optic nerve and prevent deterioration of visual functions. At the same time, drug therapy includes an ever-growing list of drugs that often have side effects, addictiveness, leading to various kinds of allergic reactions [Nesterov AP, 1995;
Zimmerman TJ, Wheeler TM, 1982; Waller W. 1985; Croft MA et al. 1996; Pitch R. 1996;
Maalouf T. 1996; Diggory P. et al, 1996].