Contributions

  • Damji, Karim F. - Contributor
  • Shields, M. Bruce - Contributor

Publication

2011 - Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

152,500 words, Guess

Page Count

610 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780781795852
  • Open LibraryOL25022946M

Classifications

  • DDC617.7/41
  • LCCRE871 .S447 2011
  • LCCRE871

Alternate Titles

  • Textbook of glaucoma

Description

"Thoroughly updated, and now in full color, Shields' Textbook of Glaucoma, Sixth Edition is a clinically focused and practical textbook for general ophthalmologists treating patients with glaucoma. This classic text offers a rational approach to the medical and surgical management of glaucoma and presents a total care plan for the patient. This edition has five new or reconfigured chapters--management of the glaucoma patient/approach to the patient; principles of medical therapy; adrenergic agonists and antagonists; cholinergic stimulators and hyperosmotic agents; and neuroprotection and other investigational drugs. The book examines new technologies for intraocular pressure assessment and current diagnostic technologies such as optical coherence tomography, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, Heidelberg retinal tomograph, and GDx. Noted experts detail advances in surgical treatment of glaucoma including new glaucoma implants and angle surgery. Coverage also includes advances in genetics of glaucomatous diseases. A companion website includes the fully searchable text and an image bank"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Shields textbook of glaucomaWolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2011-01-01

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