Glaucoma in the new millennium : proceedings of the 50th Annual Symposium on Glaucoma, New Orleans, LA, USA, April 6-8, 2001, organized by the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology / editor, Jonathan D. Nussdorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology. Session (50th : 2001 : New Orleans, La.)

Contributor:

Nussdorf, Jonathan D.

New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glaucoma--Congresses.

Glaucoma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Kugler Publications, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610739165

9781280739163

1280739169

9789062997909

9062997902

OCLC:

173240781