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Descriptor English: Low Tension Glaucoma
Descriptor Spanish: Glaucoma de Baja Tensión
Descriptor glaucoma de baja tensión
Entry term(s) glaucoma de tensión baja
Scope note: Forma de GLAUCOMA en la que el daño crónico del nervio óptico y la pérdida de la visión, normalmente atribuibles a un aumento de la presión intraocular, se producen en condiciones de presión intraocular persistentemente normal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Glaucoma de Baixa Tensão
Descriptor French: Glaucome à basse tension
Entry term(s): Glaucoma, Low Tension
Glaucoma, Normal Tension
Low Tension Glaucomas
Normal Tension Glaucoma
Normal Tension Glaucomas
Tree number(s): C11.525.381.703
C11.640.225
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D057066
Scope note: A form of glaucoma in which chronic optic nerve damage and loss of vision normally attributable to buildup of intraocular pressure occurs despite prevailing conditions of normal intraocular pressure.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: scattered (1976-2009)
Public MeSH Note: 2010
History Note: 2010
DeCS ID: 53528
Unique ID: D057066
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Date Established: 2010/01/01
Date of Entry: 2009/07/06
Revision Date: 2017/06/20
Low Tension Glaucoma - Preferred
Concept UI M0534183
Scope note A form of glaucoma in which chronic optic nerve damage and loss of vision normally attributable to buildup of intraocular pressure occurs despite prevailing conditions of normal intraocular pressure.
Preferred term Low Tension Glaucoma
Entry term(s) Glaucoma, Low Tension
Glaucoma, Normal Tension
Low Tension Glaucomas
Normal Tension Glaucoma
Normal Tension Glaucomas



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