Pain in eye, intraocular pressure?!


Question: When Mrs. Martinez vists her ophthalmologist, she complains of pain in her right eye. The intraocular pressure of that eye is found to be abnormally elevated. What is the name of Mrs. Martinez's probable condition? What causes it? What might be the outcome if the problem is not corrected?


Answers: When Mrs. Martinez vists her ophthalmologist, she complains of pain in her right eye. The intraocular pressure of that eye is found to be abnormally elevated. What is the name of Mrs. Martinez's probable condition? What causes it? What might be the outcome if the problem is not corrected?

Mrs. Martinez probably has glaucoma. This could lead to complete blindness.

Depends what "abnormally high" means. She may have been nervous/anxious - which can raise IOP too. The common cause for raised IOP is glaucoma - of which the opththalmologist would have diagnosed there and then. If not he sould have told Mrs Martinez what the outcome of the sight test was!!





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