Summary:
This practical atlas uses a stepwise approach to describe and illustrate the commonly used techniques of glaucoma surgery. The reader will be able to correctly indicate glaucoma surgery, understand and apply the different surgical techniques, and prevent as well as correct the possible complications in order to better serve the patients that need glaucoma surgery.

Experts guide readers through each procedure, sharing pearls from their years of experience. The book's inclusion of recent advances in the field (many detailed here for the first time) makes it among the most timely resources available.

FEATURES:

Practical, how-to approach
Emphasis placed through out text on preventing and treating complications
Focuses solely on surgical aspects of glaucoma treatment
Superb illustrations detail each procedure
Each chapter concludes with a pearls section (Tips for the Surgeon)
Color plates illustrate unique complications section
Targeted to general ophthalmologists.

Contents

CHAPTER 1.: Indications, Preoperative Evaluation and Anesthesia
CHAPTER 2 .:Anatomy for the Glaucoma Surgeon
CHAPTER 3 .:Goniotomy-Standard Trabeculotomy-Modified Trabeculotomy
CHAPTER 4 .:Surgical Peripheral Iridectomy
CHAPTER 5.: Standard Trabeculectomy
CHAPTER 6 .:Small Incision Trabeculectomy
CHAPTER 7.: Intraoperative Complications of Trabeculectomy
CHAPTER 8.: Early Postoperative Trabeculectomy Management-Days 2-21
CHAPTER 9 .:Mitomycin C in Trabeculectomy
CHAPTER 10.: Late Complications of Trabeculectomy
CHAPTER 11 .:Cataract and Glaucoma: Combined Procedures
CHAPTER 12 .:Glaucoma Aqueous Humor Drainage Devices
CHAPTER 13 .:Glaucoma Surgery in Special Situations
CHAPTER 14 .:Laser Peripheral Iridotomy, Laser Trabeculoplasty