title: Survival time among patients with glaucomatous visual field defects.
abstract: During our studies on glaucoma we have made an important and surprising observation. We think it is urgent to report that we have found the survival time of glaucoma patients seems to be substantially shortened. To the best of our knowledge this has not been previously reported.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D014794:Visual Fields