Biophysical Properties in Glaucoma Diagnostic Technologies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Januleviciene, Ingrida (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Harris, Alon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ophthalmology.

This book provides an overview on new insights in glaucoma, the latest technological developments, scientific achievements, and novel research leading to new paradigms in glaucoma diagnosis. Readers will discover a broad picture starting from theoretical perspectives in diagnostic criteria followed...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Importance of intraocular, intracranial and ocular prefusion pressures ( IOP, ICP, OPP) in the pathogenesis of glaucoma
• 1.1 Intraocular pressure as a risk factor
• 1.2 Intracranial pressure as a risk factor
• 1.3 Ocular perfusion pressure as a risk factor
• 1.4 Translaminar pressure difference
• 1.5 Translaminar pressure gradient
• 1.6 Lamina cribrosa (galima ir prie TPG rasyt)
• 1.7 Interactions between IOP, ICP, OPP
• 2. Current visualization of anterior chamber angle
• 2.1.Possibilities in anterior segment imaging for glaucoma (UBM, AS-OCT, gonioscopy: advantages and disadvantages)
• 2.2. Clinical applications in medical practice: Visualisation of anterior chamber angle, Visualisation of Schlemm`s canal, Visualisation of filtering blebs
• 3. Optic nerve and retina visualization in glaucoma
• 3.1. Imaging techniques of the optic nerve head and retinal fiber layer
• 3.2 Changes of retinal nerve fiber layer
• 3.3 Optic nerve head visualization
• 3.4. OCT - angiography appliance in glaucoma
• 4. Visual field assessment in glaucoma
• 4.1 Visual field examination
• 4.2. Principles of visual field testing
• 4.3. Visual field loss in glaucoma
• 4.4. Static automated perimetry
• 4.5. Visual field test interpretation
• 4.6. Visual function specific perimetry tests (FDT, SWAP)
• 5. Structure and function congruency in glaucoma
• 5.1. Structural loss
• 5.2. Functional loss
• 5.3. Correlations between structure and function in glaucomatous damage
• 6. Ocular surface and glaucoma
• 6.1. Ocular surface anatomy and physiology
• 6.2. Ocular surface evaluation prior to glaucoma medical treatment
• 6.3. Glaucoma medication effect to ocular surface: toxicity, allergy, inflammation
• 6.4. Additional substances to glaucoma medication: preservative free treatment
• 6.5. Glaucoma: comorbidity with dry eye disease.