Case 1/2 - AD, PD and glaucoma

Question 1

link AD and glaucoma

Answer 1

• patients with AD may have a significantly increased rate of glaucoma occurrence.
• patients with AD exhibit optic nerve degeneration and loss of retinal ganglion cells
• Altered molecules that may be causative for AD are also found to be altered in glaucoma (tau and Ab)

Question 2

link PD and glaucoma

Answer 2

• no higher risk of developing PD when diagnosed with glaucoma
• patients that have PD have higher chance of developing glaucoma