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Clinical Glaucoma Care The Essentials /

Glaucoma Clinical Care: The Essentials is a pragmatic, slimmer companion volume to the more academically focused text “The Glaucoma Book” by the same editors.  This new book is a thoroughly updated manual for the day-to-day diagnosis and management of glaucoma patients by comprehensive ophthalmologi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Samples, John R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schacknow, Paul N. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Ophthalmology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4172-4
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Glaucoma Risk Factors: Intraocular Pressure
  • 2. Glaucoma Risk Factors: Fluctuations in Intraocular Pressure
  • 3. Glaucoma Risk Factors: The Cornea
  • 4. Glaucoma Risk Factors: Family History – The Genetics of Glaucoma
  • 5. Indications for Therapy
  • 6. Clinical Examination of the Optic Nerve
  • 7. Some Lessons from the Disc Appearance in the Open Angle Glaucomas
  • 8. Digital Imaging of the Optic Nerve
  • 9. Detecting Functional Changes in the Patient's Vision - Visual Field Analysis
  • 10. Gonioscopy
  • 11. Office Examination of the Glaucoma Patient
  • 12. Primary Open Angle Glaucoma
  • 13. Normal-Tension Glaucoma
  • 14. Primary and Secondary Angle-Closure Glaucomas
  • 15. Malignant Glaucoma (Posterior Aqueous Diversion Syndrome)
  • 16. Pigment Dispersion Syndrome and Pigmentary Glaucoma
  • 17. Exfoliation Syndrome and Glaucoma
  • 18. Neovascular Glaucoma
  • 19. Inflammatory disease and Glaucoma
  • 20. Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndrome and Glaucoma
  • 21. Traumatic Glaucomas
  • 22. Congenital and Juvenile Glaucomas
  • 23. Medications Used to Treat Glaucoma
  • 24. Systemic Diseases and Glaucoma
  • 25. Laser Therapies: Iridotomy, Iridoplasty, and Trabeculoplasty
  • 26. Incisional Therapies: Trabeculectomy Surgery
  • 27. Incisional Therapies: Canaloplasty and New Implant Devices
  • 28. Newer FDA Approved Incisional Therapies
  • 29. Complications of Glaucoma Surgery
  • 30. Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery
  • 31. Glaucoma after Retinal Surgery.

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