Glaucoma affects more than 70 million people worldwide. Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by changes in the optic nerve head and visual field damage, due to loss of retinal ganglion cells due to cell apoptosis. This article explains how Helicobacter is related to glaucoma.

The association between Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection and eye diseases is increasingly reported in the literature and in active research. The role of this bacterium in chronic eye diseases, such as blepharitis, glaucoma, central serous cholecystitis, and others, has been hypothesized.