Curbside consultation in glaucoma 49 clinical questions /
Αποθηκεύτηκε σε:
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , , |
---|---|
Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
Έκδοση: |
Thorofare, NJ :
SLACK,
c2008.
|
Σειρά: | Curbside consultation in ophthalmology series.
|
Θέματα: | |
Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full text available from Consumer Health Database Full text available from Health & Medical Collection Full text available from Nursing & Allied Health Database Full text available from Public Health Database |
Ετικέτες: |
Προσθήκη ετικέτας
Δεν υπάρχουν, Καταχωρήστε ετικέτα πρώτοι!
|
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- How frequently does blindness develop among patients with primary open-angle glaucoma? With ocular hypertension
- Does reducing intraocular pressure really prevent development and progression of glaucoma
- What are the most frequent causes of glaucoma-related medical malpractice suits? What can I do to minimize my risk?
- How should I clinically examine the optic nerve
- What imaging device should I use in my practice
- Is there still a role for stereo disc photography in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma
- What visual field tests should I use in my glaucoma suspects? In my patients with manifest glaucoma?
- What is the best method for detecting glaucoma development? Glaucomatous progression?
- What are the implications of disc hemorrhages in glaucoma patients or suspects? How should I follow patients with anomalous optic discs, such as those with optic nerve drusen, tilted discs, myopic discs, and discs with pits?
- How is 24-hour intraocular pressure assessed? Is it important in glaucoma management or risk assessment?
- Should I measure central corneal thickness in all glaucoma patients? All glaucoma suspects? How frequently should I perform follow-up examinations, gonioscopy, visual field testing, and optic nerve evaluation in glaucoma patients?
- In which patients with glaucoma should I perform neuroimaging, cardiovascular evaluation, and/or laboratory testing? When should I suspect nonpupillary block secondary angle-closure? What are the causes? What systemic diseases can be associated with glaucoma?
- Which patients with ocular hypertension should I treat?
- How should I set a target intraocular pressure?
- How should I begin treatment for a newly diagnosed primary open-angle glaucoma patient?
- Are there special issues of which I should be aware regarding pigment dispersion syndrome or pigmentary glaucoma?
- Does exfoliation syndrome increase the risk of developing glaucoma? Are patients with exfoliation glaucoma more likely to progress? What other issues do these patients have?
- How frequent is corticosteroid-induced glaucoma? How should I manage it?
- What methods are available to break an acute attack of angle-closure glaucoma?
- How should I manage neovascular glaucoma?
- How should I treat elevated intraocular pressure (with or without glaucoma damage) associated with uveitis?
- What treatment options are available for a blind, painful eye?
- Is a unilateral trial useful when starting treatment with a glaucoma medication?
- Which glaucoma medications should be used as initial therapy?
- What is a maximum medical therapy in glaucoma management?
- Which glaucoma medications can be safely used during pregnancy? In childhood?
- Is there still a role for miotics in some patients? Oral carbonic anhydrase inhibitors?
- How should I treat the glaucoma patient with topical drug allergies?
- How can I improve patient adherence?
- When should I perform laser trabeculoplasty in my patients with open-angle glaucoma?
- When should I perform a prophylactic laser iridotomy?
- When is laser iridotomy used?
- When is incisional glaucoma surgery indicated?
- What can I do to reduce the risks of complications and failure after trabeculectomy?
- What can I do after trabeculectomy to improve its success rate?
- How do I manage chronic hypotony maculopathy? How soon should I intervene? - What are causes of anterior chamber shallowing after trabeculectomy?
- How should I manage a late-onset bleb leak?
- What factors increase the risk of bleb-related infection? How should I treat blebitis and bleb-related endophthalmitis if it develops?
- In which patients with glaucoma and cataracts should I perform a combined procedure? Cataract surgery alone? Trabeculectomy first?
- What are the indications for placement of an aqueous shunt?
- What is the best surgical approach for managing uncontrolled glaucoma in a patient who had previous cataract extraction or failed filtering surgery?
- Is there a role for nonpenetrating glaucoma surgery?
- What other new surgical techniques are available for glaucoma?
- In which glaucoma patients should I consider cyclodestruction?