The Glaucomas [electronic resource] : Volume I - Pediatric Glaucomas /
Sampaolesi, Roberto.author.
Zarate, Jorge.author.
Sampaolesi, Juan Roberto.author.
In recent decades, the prognosis of congenital glaucoma has completely changed. Nowadays surgical results are very good and enable children with pediatric glaucoma to integrate entirely into society as adults. Based on the author’s cumulative experience of more than 50 years and 860 patients operated on for congenital glaucoma, this well-structured and lavishly illustrated textbook-atlas covers all aspects of congenital and infantile glaucoma. It enables the reader to learn about the: Original method for examining newborns under general anaesthesia in the slit-lamp Signs and symptoms of the disease and the differential diagnosis Role and importance of the echometry value for early diagnosis Gonioscopy results and the three types of congenital glaucomas (pure, refractory and late) Type of surgery to be performed in each case, with the evaluation and case-studies by follow-up long-term results. Written by renowned international experts of the field, this book will become the gold standard in the field of pediatric and congenital glaucomas.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Primary Congenital Glaucoma -- Pediatrics Glaucoma. Classification -- Clinical Features -- Examination of the Newborn Under General Anesthesia -- Normal Intraocular Pressure in Children from Birth to Five Years of Age -- Ocular Echometry in the Diagnosis of Congenital Glaucoma -- Genetics in Congenital Glaucoma -- Ocular Embryology with Special Reference to Chamber Angle Development -- The Anatomy of the Chamber Angle -- Examination of the Chamber Angle -- Normal Chamber Angle in the Adult: Gonioscopic Images -- Normal Chamber Angle in Newborns and Children -- Pathological Chamber Angle in Congenital Glaucoma and Its Implications in Indications for Surgery -- Clinical History for Congenital Glaucoma -- Surgery for Congenital Glaucoma -- Results of Surgery for Congenital Glaucoma -- Optic Nerve -- Visual Field in Congenital Glaucoma -- Differential Diagnosis of Primary Congenital Glaucoma -- Goniodysgenesis or Late Congenital Glaucoma. Pigmentary Glaucoma -- Congenital Glaucoma Associated with Ocular Malformations -- Congenital Glaucoma Associated with Ocular and Somatic Malformations -- Congenital Glaucoma Associated with Congenital Errors of the Metabolism -- Congenital Mesodermal Dystrophies -- Nonhereditary Congenital Glaucomas -- Anatomopathologic Evaluation in Pure Congenital Glaucoma -- False-Positive Diagnoses -- Epilog.
In recent decades, the prognosis of congenital glaucoma has completely changed. Nowadays surgical results are very good and enable children with pediatric glaucoma to integrate entirely into society as adults. Based on the author’s cumulative experience of more than 50 years and 860 patients operated on for congenital glaucoma, this well-structured and lavishly illustrated textbook-atlas covers all aspects of congenital and infantile glaucoma. It enables the reader to learn about the: Original method for examining newborns under general anaesthesia in the slit-lamp Signs and symptoms of the disease and the differential diagnosis Role and importance of the echometry value for early diagnosis Gonioscopy results and the three types of congenital glaucomas (pure, refractory and late) Type of surgery to be performed in each case, with the evaluation and case-studies by follow-up long-term results. Written by renowned international experts of the field, this book will become the gold standard in the field of pediatric and congenital glaucomas.
Ophthalmology.
Pediatrics.
Pathology.
General practice (Medicine).
Ophthalmology.
Pediatrics.
Pathology.
General Practice / Family Medicine.