Management of Difficult Glaucoma: A Clinician's Guide

by Eve J. Higginbotham, Linda Warren, David A. Lee

This volume is designed to provide the clinician with a guide to the management of difficult glaucoma. It provides a detailed discussion glaucoma as a serious ophthalmic problem; epidemiology; patient evaluation - including a section on the pitfalls and perils of examination; pharmacology; general management approaches, such as when to treat a suspected glaucoma patient; management of neovascular glaucoma; cataracts and glaucoma; low tension glaucoma; when to refer a patient to a surgeon; special surgical and laser techniques; and management of glaucomas within specific cultural and ethnic groups.

459 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1993