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How is elevated IOP causing the orderly, peripheral-to-central loss of nerve fibers in glaucoma? This is the most puzzling question in glaucoma. This systematic loss can only be achieved by a mechanical process. Glaucoma may not be an optic neuropathy, but an optic disc axotomy - a paradigm shift.