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 â€{u0528}e 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.

Glaucoma Clinical Care: The Essentials is a pragmatic, slimmer companion volume to the more academically focused text “The Glaucoma Bookâ€{u08B9} 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.Â{u0274}s 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.Â{u2820} 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.