Contents

#### **Preface XIII**




Chapter 17 **Clinical Research Progress of Glaucomatocyclitic Crisis 379**

Marek Rękas and Karolina Krix-Jachym

Chapter 19 **Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery – Strategies**

Chapter 20 **Combined Cataract-Glaucoma Surgery 473**

Chapter 18 **Malignant Glaucoma 421**

**for Success 439** Daljit Singh

He-Zheng Zhou, Qian Ye, Jian-Guo Wu, Wen-Shan Jiang, Feng Chang, Yan-Ping Song, Qing Ding and Wen-Qiang Zhang

Contents **VII**

Vassilis Kozobolis, Aristeidis Konstantinidis and Georgios Labiris


Chapter 7 **The Role of Apolipoprotein E Gene Polymorphisms in Primary Glaucoma and Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome 129**

Chapter 8 **Progressive Neurodegeneration of Retina in Alzheimer's**

Sotiria Palioura and Demetrios G. Vavvas

Chapter 10 **Strategies for Neuroprotection in Glaucoma 203** Lizette Mowatt and Maynard Mc Intosh

**Factors in Glaucoma? 157**

Chapter 9 **Neuroprotection in Glaucoma 179**

Chapter 11 **Cornea and Glaucoma 227**

**Optic Disc 267** Ivan Marjanovic

**Section 2 Clinical Aspects 331**

Chapter 16 **Uveitic Glaucoma 359** Shimon Rumelt

Chapter 15 **Neovascular Glaucoma 333**

Asmari

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Najwa Mohammed Al- Dabbagh, Sulaiman Al-Saleh, Nourah Al-Dohayan, Misbahul Arfin, Mohammad Tariq and Abdulrahman Al-

**Disease — Are β-Amyloid Peptide and Tau New Pathological**

Kin Chiu, Kwok-Fai So and Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang

Gema Bolivar, Javier Paz Moreno-Arrones and Miguel A. Teus

**Scanning Peripheral Anterior Chamber Depth Analyzer 251** Noriko Sato, Makoto Ishikawa, Yu Sawada, Daisuke Jin, Shun

Vassilis Kozobolis, Aristeidis Konstantinidis and Georgios Labiris

Cynthia Esponda-Lammoglia, Rafael Castaneda-Díez, Gerardo García-Aguirre, Oscar Albis-Donado and Jesús Jiménez-Román

Chapter 12 **Screening for Narrow Angles in the Japanese Population Using**

Watanabe, Masaya Iwakawa and Takeshi Yoshitomi

Chapter 13 **The History of Detecting Glaucomatous Changes in the**

Chapter 14 **Recognizing a Glaucomatous Optic Disc 295**


Preface

Glaucoma specialty progressed enormously in the last two decades We are evident to better understanding the genetics and pathogenesis of different types of glaucomas that will ena‐ ble us to develop novel approaches for treatment, new imaging techniques such as anterior segment optical coherence tomography, Heidelberg Retinal Tomography and scanning laser polarimetry. In addition, application of new devices such as the ExPress shunt, iStent and Solx Gold shunt and new procedures such as canaloplasty and deep sclerostomy to mini‐ mize postoperative complications of the traditional trabeculectomy without compromising

This book arranged discusses first the basic aspects of glaucomas, including the final offend‐ ers, the retinal ganglion cells and many other topics and clinical aspects including evalua‐ tion and management of glaucoma and the different types of glaucomas, their features, evaluation, differential diagnosis and specific approaches for management. The book covers some but not all the topics in the field. It is a product of a balance between expedited pub‐

The book is intended for the general ophthalmologists, glaucoma specialists, and research‐ ers in the field, residents and fellows. It covers both basic and clinical concepts of glaucoma and each author incorporated his/ hers on perspectives on each topic adding his/ hers won theories, future trends and research. Therefore, the book should enable researches and clini‐ cians to adopt new ideas for further basic and clinical research and implementation of the

The book is a result of multi-national glaucoma specialists from around the globe with a common characteristic of taking care of patients. Some of the authors are engaged for many years with this field, some are just at their beginning. Some authors are researches, other clinicians. Some are world leaders, others will be. I hope that the readers will be of wide

The book is accessed online to allow a free access to as many readers worldwide as possible and is also available on print for those who do not have online access or are interested in having their own hard copy. This will definitely contribute to the distribution of the knowl‐

The book is a welcome addition to the previous books on the subject published by InTech: "The mystery of glaucoma" edited by Tomaš Kubena, "Glaucoma – current clinical and re‐ search aspects" by Pinakin Gunvant and "Gaucoma – basic and clinical concepts" by Shi‐

mon Rumelt. It expands and updates previous topics and adds new ones.

the success of the procedure have been developed.

lishing process and encompassing the entire field.

edge on glaucoma between researchers and clinicians.

approaches for treating glaucomas.

verity as our authors.
