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Br J Ophthalmol 2005;89:1228-1229 doi:10.1136/bjo.2005.073866
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Normal tension glaucoma

  1. M C Brodsky
  1. Correspondence to: Professor M C Brodsky Department of Ophthalmology Arkansas Children’s Hospital, 800 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA; brodskymichaelcuams.edu
  • Accepted 25 April 2005

I enjoyed the recent study by Ogata et al, in which they attempted to assess the interrelation between intracranial vascular compression of the optic nerves and normal tension glaucoma.1 Coronal magnetic resonance images of the optic nerves were used to assess the degree of compression of the intracranial optic nerves and the supraclinoid internal carotid arteries. Compression of an optic nerve by a normal internal carotid artery was found in 51 …

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