Abstract
Normal tention glaucoma and idiopathic intracranial hypertension have common characteristics, but do not clinically associate.
The physiopathological hypotheses seem to incriminate for these two pathologies a disorder of the dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid. New data suggest that the cerebrospinal fluid that fills the spaces around the optic nerve has a composition and clean hydraulics, sometimes independent of those of other spaces of the central nervous system.
This pathological compartmentalization of the optic nerve sheath was assumed in both idiopathic intracranial hypertension and normal pressure glaucoma. The subject of this thesis enriches the literature on NTG with observations illustrating the coexistence of a NTG and compartmental syndrome documented by imaging. A review of the literature on this association is summarized in the discussion.
The present work is a retrospective study of 3 patient files presenting both "idiopathic intracranial hypertension" and "normal pressure glaucoma", whose clinical and paraclinical data were collected from patients' files collected within the ophthalmology department.