BookJohn R. Samples, Paul N. Schacknow, editors.
Summary: 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:
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 {u2013} 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.