Shields textbook of glaucoma
6th ed. / senior author, R. Rand Allingham ; associate authors, Karim F. Damji ... [et al.].
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Author
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
- Internet Archiveshieldstextbookg00damj
- ISBN-100781795850
- ISBN-139780781795852
- Library of Congress Control Number2010031608
- OCLC Control Number650953446
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.
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