The Glaucomas

History.- Concept of Glaucoma, Pathogenesis.- Epidemiology and Etiopathogenia.- Structure and function of the tissues that are in contact with Aqueous Humor.- Aqueous humor. Physiology of the aqueous humor.- Intraocular pressure and its regulation.- Intraocular pressure measurement. Tonometry.- Indentation tonometry.- Ocular rigidity or resistance to distension.- Applanation tonometry.- The role of pachymetry.- Pascal Tonometer: Dynamic contour tonometry.- Continuous IOP monitoring devices. The Micro ocular Glaucoma Holter.- Episcleral venous pressure.- Daily pressure curve.- Early diagnosis of intraocular hypertension. Ibopamine test.- Normal pressure glaucoma. Vasospasm and glaucoma.- Ocular Embriology with Special Reference to Chamber Angle Development.- The Anatomy of the Chamber Angle.- Examination of the Chamber Angle.- Normal Chamber Angle in the adult. Gonioscopic images.- UBM and SL-OCT in primary open angle glaucoma.- Anterior chamber depth and biometry of the anterior chamber.- Embryology and anatomy of the optic nerve and the optic nerve head. Vascular anatomy of the optic nerve.- Ophthalmoscopy of the optic nerve head.- Biomicroscopy of the disc.- Optic disc biometry.- Confocal tomography of the optic nerve head, the HRT.- Confocal tomography of the optic nerve head. The HRT II and III.- Scanning Laser Doppler Flowmeter (HRF).- Scanning laser polarimetry, the GDx.- Correlation between ONH and visual field damage in glaucoma.- Progression of optic nerve head damage and visual field in glaucoma.- Photometry.- Physiology concepts related with the visual field.- Extension of normal visual field.- Campimetry and perimetry.- Campimetry and perimetry with a single variable.- Campimetry and perimetry with two variables.- Considerations on Goldmann Perimetry screen.- Static perimetry.- Visual field defects in glaucoma.- value in clinical glaucoma setting.- Automatic, static, computerized and standardized perimetry.- Glaucoma program G1.- Standard perimetry

"The book represents a valuable source of information for anybody interested in all aspects of the disease in a more detailed and comprehensive way. ... The book is very well illustrated and most of the diagrams and drawings are very intuitive and definitely helpful in supplementing the text content. ... we can recommend the book to glaucoma specialists as a reference source and as a useful tool to broaden one's perspective of several aspects of this complex and sight-threatening disease." (Radouil Tzekov and David Richards, Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Vol. 254, 2016)