Main description:

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 ophthalmologists and optometric physicians. Its 33 chapters are authored by world renowned experts in clinical care and basic research, providing evidenced-based research, office examination skills, clinical pearls, and up-to-date reviews of the scientific literature on glaucoma, as wel l as extensive graphics and tables to accompany the text.

Glaucoma Clinical Care: The Essentials is the one book to have and consult when confronted with a problematic glaucoma patient sitting in your exam chair as it is a thorough presentation of glaucoma medications, laser, and incisional glaucoma surgeries, complete with commentaries on advantages and disadvantages of the different therapies.

Contents:

Ch. 1: Glaucoma Risk Factors: Intraocular Pressure

Nils A. Loewen

Angelo P. Tanna

Ch. 2: Glaucoma Risk Factors: Fluctuations in Intraocular Pressure

Felipe A. Medeiros

Ch. 3: Glaucoma Risk Factors: The Cornea

Lionel Marzette

Leon W. Herndon

Ch. 4: Glaucoma Risk Factors: Family History - The Genetics of Glaucoma

John R. Samples

Mary K. Wirtz

Ch. 5: Indications for Therapy

George L. Spaeth

Eman Elhawy

Ch. 6: Clinical Examination of the Optic Nerve

Scott J. Fudemberg

Victor Cvintal

Jonathan S. Myers

Sheryl S. Wizov

L. Jay Katz

Ch. 7: Some Lessons from the Disc Appearance in the Open Angle Glaucomas

Stephen M. Drance

Ch. 8: Digital Imaging of the Optic Nerve

H. George Tanaka

Shan Lin

Ch. 9: Detecting Functional Changes in the Patient's Vision - Visual Field Analysis

Chris A. Johnson

Ch. 10: Gonioscopy

Reid A. Longmuir

Ch. 11: Office Examination of the Glaucoma Patient

Paul N. Schacknow

Ch. 12: Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

Matthew G. McMenemy

Ch. 13: Normal-Tension Glaucoma

Bruce E. Prum, Jr.

Ch. 14: Primary and Secondary Angle-Closure Glaucomas

Marshall N. Cyrlin

Ch. 15: Malignant Glaucoma (Posterior Aqueous Diversion Syndrome)

Marshall N. Cyrlin

Ch.16: Pigment Dispersion Syndrome and Pigmentary Glaucoma

Sung Chul Park

Celso Tello

Nathan Radcliffe

Robert Ritch

Ch. 17: Exfoliation Syndrome and Glaucoma

Anastasios-Georgios P. Konstas

Gabor Hollo

Miguel A. Teus

Robert Ritch

Ch. 18: Neovascular Glaucoma

Sameh Mosaed

Donald Minckler

Ch. 19: Inflammatory disease and Glaucoma

Sunita Radhakrishnan

Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr.

Andrew G. Iwach

Ch. 20: Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndrome and Glaucoma

Sarwat Salim

Peter A. Netland

Ch. 21: Traumatic Glaucomas

David Diaz

Dinorah Piacentini Engel Castro

Cynthia Mattox

Ch. 22: Congenital and Juvenile Glaucomas

David S. Walton

Ch. 23: Medications Used to Treat Glaucoma

Paul N. Schacknow

John R. Samples

Ch. 24: Systemic Diseases and Glaucoma

Paul J. Lama

Ch. 25: Laser Therapies: Iridotomy, Iridoplasty, and Trabeculoplasty

Douglas E. Gaasterland

Ch. 26: Incisional Therapies: Trabeculectomy Surgery

Daniel Cotlear

Shlomo Melamed

Ch. 27: Incisional Therapies: Canaloplasty and New Implant Devices

Diamond Y. Tam

Ike K. Ahmed

Ch. 28: Newer FDA Approved Incisional Therapies

Richard Hill

Donald Minckler

Ch. 29: Complications of Glaucoma Surgery

Marlene R. Moster

Augusto Azuara-Blanco

Ch. 30: Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery

Joseph R. Zelefsky

Stephen A. Obstbaum

Ch. 31: Glaucoma after Retinal Surgery

Annisa L. Jamil

Scott D. Lawrence

David A. Saperstein

Elliott M. Kanner

Richard P. Mills

Peter A. Netland