Pearls of Glaucoma Management [recurso electrónico] / edited by JoAnn A. Giaconi, Simon K. Law, Anne L. Coleman, Joseph Caprioli.

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 Testing in Glaucoma: Optic Nerve Blood Flow 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: Pseudoexfoliation 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.

If you have ever uttered the commonly expressed lament, “Glaucoma is so confusing!” then this text is for you. You will no longer be bewildered. Why practitioners may be confused about how to be of help to patients with glaucoma – in its many incarnations and reincarnations – is easily understood. The issue seems to be overwhelming when one considers that the already massive popu- tion of those with glaucoma is increasing rapidly as the world’s population increases and ages. During the past 50 years the fundamental defnition of glaucoma has changed almost 180°, and the indications for treatment have become more variable and c- troversial, some advising early therapy and others strongly cautioning against such an approach: Various diagnostic tests have come and gone and are interpreted in such different ways that there seems to be no consensus; surgical techniques come in and out of fashion in perplexing ways. There seems to be a constantly shifting, sandy foundation on which are built unsteady schools of ever-varying advice. Why prac- tioners, patients, and the public are often bewildered is understandable.

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