Clinical Glaucoma Care: The Essentials / Edition 1

by John R. Samples, Paul N. Schacknow

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461441717
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	11/28/2013
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	667
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.06(d)

About the Author

John R. Samples, M.D. is formerly Professor of Ophthalmology at the Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) and the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, OR. He has been director of medical student education in ophthalmology at OHSU for 20 years. He is currently runs Glaucoma Consultants, a site for patients, physicians and the Western Glaucoma Foundation, which supplies patients with clinical information as well as information to help patients find associated colleagues who provide the high quality glaucoma medical and surgical care on the West Coast.

Paul N. Schacknow M.D., Ph.D., ophthalmologist, is Chief of Glaucoma Services at Visual Health Center, a multispecialty eye-care practice in Palm Springs, FL. He is a specialist in the medical, laser and surgical treatment of glaucoma patients.

Table of 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 – 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.