perifial vision

When I had a Glucoma test my doctor says I could later on have Perfial Vision. What does this mean?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Read more about glaucoma at this link which you should post in your internet browser;

http://www.glaucoma.org/index.php

Glaucoma damages the side vision first the central or reading vision only at the very end. A peripheral vision test also known as a visual field tests looks for this damage and is usually done with several other tests:  gonioscopy, optic nerve photographs, optic nerve OCT, central corneal thickness tests.

JCH III MD

[wolfmanjack]

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