Clinical guide to glaucoma management
By: [edited by] Eve Juliet Higginbotham, David A. Lee.
Contributors: Higginbotham, Eve J.; Lee, David A.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Woburn, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
Subjects: Glaucoma; Glaucoma -- therapy; Glaucoma -- diagnosis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I; title: Defining the problem -- -- 1; title: Primary open-angle glaucoma: epidemiology and risk factors -- -- 2; title: Genetic counseling for glaucoma patients -- -- pt. II; title: Evaluating the patient -- -- 3; title: Examination of the anterior segment -- -- 4; title: Concepts and measurement techniques of intraocular pressure -- -- 5; title: Evaluation of optic nerve head - -- 6; title: Visual field examination -- -- pt. III; title: Pharmacology of medical management -- -- 7; title: Medical management of glaucoma -- -- 8; title: Systemic side effects and interactions of glaucoma medications -- -- pt. IV; title: General approach to the management of difficult glaucoma -- -- 9; title: Glaucoma suspect: when to treat? -- -- 10; title: Angle-closure glaucoma -- -- 11; title: Advanced glaucoma-management when medications fail -- -- 12; title: Low-tension glaucoma -- -- 13; title: Pigmentary dispersion and pigmentary glaucoma -- -- 14; title: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma -- -- 15; title: Glaucoma associated with uveitis -- -- 16; title: Cataracts and glaucoma -- -- 17; title: Aphakia and pseudophakia glaucoma -- -- 18; title: Management of the patient with postpenetrating keratoplasty associated glaucoma -- -- 19; title: Neovascular glaucoma -- -- 20; title: Iridocorneal endothelial syndrome -- -- 21; title: Glaucoma after scleral buckling and vitrectomy -- -- 22; title: Diagnosis and management of malignant glaucoma -- -- 23; title: Nontraumatic lens-induced glaucoma -- -- 24; title: Glaucoma in traumatized eyes -- -- 25; title: Glaucoma associated with intraocular tumors -- -- 26; title: Glaucoma associated with elevated episcleral venous pressure -- -- 27; title: Congenital glaucoma -- -- 28; title: Pregnancy and glaucoma -- -- pt. V; title: Special surgical techniques, and complications -- -- 29; title: Laser treatment in glaucoma -- -- 30; title: Goniotomy, trabeculotomy, and goniosynechialysis -- -- 31; title: Glaucoma filtration surgery: techniques and intraoperative complications -- -- 32; title: Surgical management of the patient with cataracts and glaucoma -- -- 33; title: Implantation of setons in glaucoma -- -- 34; title: Pharmacologic modulation of filtering surgery wound healing -- -- 35; title: Cycloblation -- -- 36; title: Management of surgical complications -- -- pt. VI; title: Glaucoma in specific populations -- -- 37; title: Glaucoma in specific high-risk racial and ethnic groups -- -- pt. VII; title: Legal and coding considerations in glaucoma -- -- 38; title: Risk management in glaucoma -- -- 39; title: General principles of glaucoma coding --; title: Index.