TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samples,John R.
AU  - Schacknow,Paul N.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Clinical Glaucoma Care: The Essentials 
SN  - 9781461441724
AV  - RE1-994 
U1  - 617.7 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - medicine
KW  - Ophthalmology
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4172-4
ER  -