Abstract
The first to describe a glaucoma without the presence of ocular hypertension was Alfred von Graefe in 1857 [1] and [2]. Von Graefe’s definition was purely descriptive: “Presence of cupping of the optic disc in the absence of elevated intraocular pressure.” It should be remembered that in von Graefe’s time, the tonometer did not exist, so the pressure was taken with the fingers: digital pressure. In 1722 St. Yves was the first to describe ocular hypertension in glaucoma as we described it in Chap. 1. From that period on, all the ophthalmologists conceived glaucoma as a disease leading to amaurosis and which had high pressure, and so much pressure was placed on von Graefe himself [3] that he gave up his concept of the existence of a glaucoma without pressure.
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Sampaolesi, R., Sampaolesi, J.R., Zárate, J. (2014). Normal-Pressure Glaucoma. Vasospasm and Glaucoma. In: The Glaucomas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35500-4_17
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