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Glaucoma in the New Millennium.
Title:
Glaucoma in the New Millennium.
Author:
Nussdorf, J.D.
ISBN:
9789062997909
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Series:
New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Defining Glaucoma -- An approach to glaucoma pathogenesis -- How do we kill the idea of low-tension glaucoma? -- How much glaucoma damage is pressure-dependent? -- Ocular blood flow and glaucoma -- Microvascular changes of the human anterior optic nerve in glaucoma -- Neuroprotection and glaucoma. How do I tell if a drug is neuroprotective? -- The Angle -- The true nature of angle-closure glaucoma -- Gonioscopy in the laser age -- Round table: How I make the decision to do a peripheral iridotomy: my laser, lens and settings -- Round table: How I make the decision to do ALT: my laser, lens and settings -- The Optic Nerve Head -- Evaluation of optic disc and nerve fiber layer in glaucoma. Clinical techniques -- Round table: How I follow the optic nerve head and nerve fiber layer: my step by step approach -- Workshop: Imaging the optic nerve head and nerve fiber layer in glaucoma -- Round table: My most confusing optic nerve head -- Psychophysics -- Update on psychophysical tests for glaucoma -- The variability of perimetry. Reassessing an important clinical tool -- Round table: Visual field -- Update on perimetry. New developments -- Questions directed to Chris Johnson in his absence -- Treatment Issues, Problems & Repairs -- Using combination drugs in glaucoma management -- The use of topical anesthesia for a combined cataract and glaucoma procedure -- Update on antimetabolic use -- Plumbing pearls. An effective method for reversing hypotony maculopathy and how to save failing filtering blebs at the slit lamp -- Round table: My procedure and antimetabolite dose of choice for a primary trabeculectomy -- Round table: Refractive surgery: thin corneas, inaccurate intraocular pressures, and the myopic disc at risk -- Duke-Elder lectures -- Lecture 1: Maintenance and pathophysiology of intraocular pressure.

Lecture 2: Natural history of simple open-angle glaucoma -- Lecture 3: Natural history of congestive narrow-angle glaucoma -- Appendix 1 - Glaucoma Symposiums of the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology -- Appendix 2 - Sponsors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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