Main description:

This book aims to provide the readers with an up-to-date and evidence-based management approach for primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG), which makes effective and safe use of all the interventions currently available. The book presents to the glaucoma subspecialists and the general ophthalmologists a clear and concise introduction to the latest advances in the management of primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG), from the latest imaging technologies to objectively quantify the drainage angle closure and structural glaucomatous progression, to an up-to-date review of the laser and surgical options for treating PACG. The laser and surgical interventions include laser peripheral iridotomy, laser peripheral iridoplasty, lens extraction alone or in combination with other glaucoma surgery, filtration surgery (including minimally-invasive and non-penetrating variants), goniosynechialysis (GSL), glaucoma drainage device implantation, and cyclodestructive procedures. This informative book, written based on the authors' vast clinical, teaching, and research experience in this field, will offer the readers in-depth and useful resources on PACG.

Contents:

1 Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma (PACG) - A Logical Approach Base on Angle Closures Types and Mechanism

2 Intraocular Pressure Fluctuation in Angle Closure Glaucoma

3 Objective Quantitative Evaluation of Angle Closure

4 Medical Therapy in Angle Closure Glaucoma

5 Laser Peripheral Iridotomy

6 Laser Peripheral Iridoplasty

7 The role of selective laser trabeculoplasty in primary angle closure glaucoma

8 Lens extraction in PACG

9 Goniosynechialysis For Synechial Angle Closure

10 Filtration Surgery and Glaucoma Drainage Devices in PACG

11 Cyclodestructive Procedures

12 Trabecular, Canal and Suprachoroidal Surgery in Primary Angle Closure

13 Malignant glaucoma and choroidal detachment after drainage surgery and its management

14 Management of acute primary angle closure

15 Recent Advances in our Understanding of the Genetic Basis of Primary Angle-closure Glaucoma