Pearls of glaucoma management / JoAnn A. Giaconi ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Optic nerve: the glaucomatous optic nerve -- Optic nerve: clinical examination -- Optic nerve: Heidelberg retinal tomography -- Optic nerve: scanning laser polarimetry -- Optic nerve: optical coherence tomography -- Optic nerve: comparison of technologies -- Optic nerve: atypical nerves and nerve findings -- IOP: the importance of intraocular pressure -- IOP: instruments to measure IOP -- IOP: central corneal thickness -- IOP: corneal hysteresis -- IOP: target pressures -- IOP: fluctuation -- Gonioscopy: why do indentation? -- Visual fields: visual field test strategies -- Visual fields: fluctuation and progression -- Visual fields: field interpretation -- Other tests in glaucoma: genetic testing -- Other tests in glaucoma: optic nerve blood flow part I -- Other tests in glaucoma: optic nerve blood flow II

Other tests in glaucoma: multifocal visual evoked potential -- Risk factors -- Risk factors: the risk calculator -- Medical treatment: first line agents and monotherapy -- Medical treatment: the pregnant and nursing woman -- Medical treatment: carbonic anhydrase inhibitors -- Medical treatment: osmotic agents -- Medical treatment: neuroprotection -- Medical treatment: treated vs. untreated glaucoma and ocular hypertension -- Medical treatment: adherence and persistence -- Medical treatment: alternative medicine and glaucoma -- Procedural treatments: laser trabeculoplasty -- Procedural treatments: endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation -- Procedural treatments: transcleral cyclophotocoagulation -- Procedural treatments: trabeculectomy -- Procedural treatments: perioperative medication -- Procedural treatments: bleb needling -- Procedural treatments: glaucoma drainage devices -- Procedural treatments: new surgical options -- Procedural treatments: Ex-PRESS mini glaucoma shunt

Procedural treatments: phacotrabeculectomy -- Procedural treatments: surgery in end-stage glaucoma -- Glaucomas: managing normal-tension glaucoma -- Glaucomas: pseucoexfoliation glaucoma -- Glaucomas: pigment dispersion glaucoma and angle recession glaucoma -- Glaucomas: Sturge Weber syndrome -- Glaucomas: glaucoma and the cornea -- Glaucomas: uveitic glaucoma -- Glaucomas: neovascular glaucoma -- Pediatric glaucoma: IOP, axial length, and surgery indications -- Pediatric glaucoma: glaucoma medications and steroids -- Pediatric glaucoma: angle surgery and glaucoma drainage devices -- Pediatric glaucoma: trabeculectomy and glaucoma drainage devices -- Angle-closure glaucoma: risk factors -- Angle-closure glaucoma: iridotomy -- Angle-closure glaucoma: imaging -- Angle-closure glaucoma: medical therapy -- Angle-closure glaucoma: surgical management of acute angle-closure glaucoma -- Complications: hypotony -- Complications: bleb leaks -- Complications: blebitis.