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mother is also being actively treated for glaucoma). At the 1-month follow-up visit, the patient’s
floaters had greatly subsided, and repeat retinal examination revealed no tears or breaks.

Figure 3.​ This large disc hemorrhage resulted from the microtrauma of an acute, symptomatic PVD and was fully resorbed by the
patient's 1-month follow-up visit. More important to note is the thin neuroretinal rim tissue inferiorly.

The patient’s visual fields ​(Figure 4)​ perfectly correspond to the appearance of her optic nerve
heads showing thinned inferior retinal nerve fiber layer. Because her impressive visual field loss
occurred over many years, the patient was asymptomatic to her visual field loss (remember, the goal

of glaucoma care is to keep the patient asymptomatic for as long as they live). So, in this respect, all
is well.

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