Glaucoma identification and co-management /
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It aims to provide the background knowledge needed by optometrists embarking on co-management/shared-care of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG) and to reinforce the knowledge of those already involved in...
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Edinburgh ; New York :
Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology of primary open angle glaucoma
- The production and drainage of aqueous humour
- Histopathology and pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy
- Evaluation of the anterior chamber angle
- Interpretation of visual field measures from automated and semi-automated perimeters
- Visual function in glaucoma
- Diagnosis of the glaucomas 1: visual field changes
- Diagnosis of the glaucomas 2: intraocular pressure
- Diagnosis of glaucoma through examination of the optic nerve head
- Medical management of the glaucomas 1: pharmacological principles
- Medical management of the glaucomas 2:
- Laser and surgical treatment of glaucoma
- Glaucoma shared care schemes.
- Ch. 1 Epidemiology of primary open angle glaucoma / Alicja R Rudnicka and Christopher G Owen
- Ch. 2 Production and drainage of aqueous humor / John G Lawrenson
- Ch. 3 Histopathology and pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy / John G Lawrenson
- Ch. 4 Evaluation of the anterior chamber angle / C Lisa Prokopich and John G Flanagan
- Ch. 5 Interpretation of visual field measures from automated and semi-automated perimeters / Alicja R Rudnicka and David F Edgar
- Ch. 6 Visual function in glaucoma / David Thomson
- Ch. 7 Diagnosis of the glaucomas : visual field changes / David B Henson and Robert Harper
- Ch. 8 Diagnosis of the glaucomas 2 : intraocular pressure / Robert Harper and David B Henson
- Ch. 9 Diagnosis of glaucoma through examination of the optic nerve head / Sarah J Wilson, Simon JA Rankin, Colm O'Brien and Yvonne Delaney
- Ch. 10 Medical management of the glaucomas 1: pharmacological principles / Jim Bloom
- Ch. 11 Medical management of the glaucomas 2 / Philip Bloom and Christopher Bentley
- Ch. 12 Laser and surgical treatment of glaucoma / Mark R Wilkins, Peter Shah and Peng T Khaw
- Ch. 13 Glaucoma co-management / Paul GD Spry.