Silent Cerebral Infarcts: Risk Factor For Visual Field Loss As Well As For Stroke?
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
Health conditions in normal tension glaucoma (NTG) patients differ from those in patients with the more common primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). For one thing, an increased incidence of silent cerebral infarct (SCI), blockage in small blood vessels in the brain, is seen in brain scans of people with NTG.