Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery

Malik Y. Kahook, MD is Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado. He also directs the glaucoma service and glaucoma fellowship, and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado. He specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma and cataracts. He is active within the ophthalmology community including memberships in the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Glaucoma Society, American Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgeons, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Dr. Kahook has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters, and is editor of Chandler and Grant’s Glaucoma. He was awarded an American Glaucoma Society Clinician-Scientist Fellowship Award for 2007 as well as the American Glaucoma Society Compliance Grant for 2006 and was named New Inventor of the Year for the University of Colorado in 2009 and Inventor of the Year for 2010. He has filed for 12 patents, several of which have been licensed by companies for development and commercialization. Dr. Kahook is a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration’s Ophthalmic Device Division.     Dr. Kahook completed his residency training at the University of Colorado, Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute in Denver, Colorado, where he was named Chief Resident. He then went on to complete his fellowship in glaucoma from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Section I Introduction to Basic Concepts of Glaucoma Surgery

Chapter 1 The Surgical Decision-Making Process
Kathryn L. Pepple, MD, PhD and
R. Rand Allingham, MD

Chapter 2 Surgical Anatomy
David Fleischman, MD and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 3 Wound Modulation After Filtration Surgery
Leonard K. Seibold, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Section II Trabeculectomy

Chapter 4 Trabeculectomy Surgery: Decision Making and
Technique
Marcos Reyes, MD; James A. Fox, MD; and
Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 5 Trabeculectomy: Management of Postoperative Complications
Jonathan Eisengart, MD

Section III Glaucoma Drainage Device Implantation

Chapter 6 Preoperative Evaluation for Glaucoma Drainage Device Surgery
Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 7 Types of Glaucoma Drainage Implants
Jeffrey Zink, MD

Chapter 8 Standard Technique for Implanting Glaucoma Drainage Devices
Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 9 Location of Glaucoma Drainage Implants and Tubes
Gabriel T. Chong, MD and Richard K. Lee, MD, PhD

Chapter 10 Use of Antimetabolites With Tube Shunt Surgery
Anup K. Khatana, MD

Chapter 11 Considerations on Day of Glaucoma Drainage Implant Surgery
Jeffrey Zink, MD

Chapter 12 Postoperative Management of Glaucoma Drainage Implants
Jeffrey Zink, MD

Chapter 13 Glaucoma Drainage Devices: Management of Intraoperative and Postoperative Complications Jonathan Eisengart, MD

Section IV Glaucoma Surgery Combined With Cataract
Extraction

Chapter 14 Cataract Surgery and Intraocular Pressure
John P. Berdahl, MD and Thomas W. Samuelson, MD

Chapter 15 Endoscopic Cyclophotocoagulation
Steven R. Sarkisian Jr., MD

Chapter 16 Combined Phacoemulsification and Trabectome
Michael B. Horsley, MD and Douglas J. Rhee, MD

Chapter 17 Glaucoma Filtration Surgery Combined With Cataract Extraction
Matthew Rouse, MD and Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 18 Canaloplasty Combined With Cataract Extraction
Ben J. Harvey, MD and Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 19 Cataract Extraction Plus iStent
John P. Berdahl, MD

Section V Lasers

Chapter 20 Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty
Elizabeth T. Viriya, MD and Joseph R. Zelefsky, MD

Chapter 21 Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty
Denise A. John, MD, FRCSC and
Jennifer Somers Weizer, MD

Chapter 22 Comparison of Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty and
Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty
Fiorella Saponara, MD and Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 23 Laser Peripheral Iridotomy
Christopher Leung, MD

Chapter 24 Argon Laser Peripheral Iridoplasty
Clement C. Y. Tham, FRCS(Glasgow), FCOphth(HK);
Dennis S. C. Lam, MD(HK), FRCS(Edin), FRCOphth(UK),
FCOphth(HK); and Robert Ritch, MD

Chapter 25 Transscleral Cyclophotocoagulation
Douglas E. Gaasterland, MD

Chapter 26 Endocyclophotocoagulation
Nathan Radcliffe, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Section VI Less Common Surgeries

Chapter 27 Surgical Iridectomy
Stephen P. Verb, MD, MHSA and
Nauman Imami, MD, MHSA

Chapter 28 Repair of Cyclodialysis Clefts
Amy Badger-Asaravala, MD and Robert Stamper, MD


Chapter 29 Drainage of Choroidal Effusions
Leon W. Herndon, MD

Chapter 30 Angle Surgery: Goniotomy and Trabeculotomy
Danielle M. Ledoux, MD; Suzanne Johnston, MD;
and David S. Walton, MD

Section VII Surgical Management of Complicated Glaucomas

Chapter 31 Surgical Management of Neovascular Glaucoma
Jonathan Eisengart, MD

Chapter 32 Surgical Management of Uveitic Glaucoma
Jonathan Eisengart, MD

Chapter 33 Glaucoma Surgery in the Nanophthalmic Eye
Tiffany N. Szymarek, MD; Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD; and
Jonathan Eisengart, MD

Chapter 34 Glaucoma Surgery in Aniridia Patients
Jeffrey Zink, MD

Chapter 35 Glaucoma Surgery in Corneal Transplant Patients
Preeya K. Gupta, MD and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 36 Glaucoma Surgery in the Keratoprosthesis Patient
Jeffrey Zink, MD

Chapter 37 Concomitant Glaucoma Drainage Devices and
Corneal Transplantation
Preeya K. Gupta, MD and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 38 Glaucoma Drainage Device Implantation Combined
With Pars Plana Vitrectomy
Jonathan Eisengart, MD

Section VIII Novel Approaches

Chapter 39 EX-PRESS Glaucoma Filtration Device
Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Chapter 40 Canaloplasty
Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 41 Trabectome
Mina Pantcheva, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Chapter 42 Suprachoroidal Devices
Sarwat Salim, MD, FACS

Section IX Surgical Trials and Regulatory Insights

Chapter 43 Review of Glaucoma Surgery Clinical Trials
Travis C. Rumery, DO; David C. Musch, PhD, MPH;
and Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 44 US Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Ophthalmic Devices
R. Lee Kramm, MSE, MD and Malvina B. Eydelman, MD

Chapter 45 Glaucoma Surgery in Resource-Poor Settings
Nathan Congdon, MD, MPH

Section X Perspectives on Surgery from the Experts

Chapter 46 Are You Still Withholding the “Trabeculectomy Cure?” David L. Epstein, MD, MMM

Chapter 47 Glaucoma Surgical Innovation Nearing the Tipping
Point
Thomas W. Samuelson, MD

Chapter 48 Glaucoma Surgery: A Paradox
Richard A. Lewis, MD


Chapter 49 Future of Glaucoma
Ayyala Ramesh

Chapter 50 Glaucoma Surgery: Where We Started and Where We
Are Going
Marlene R. Moster, MD

Chapter 51 Progress in Surgery for Glaucoma
Robert D. Fechtner, MD

Chapter 52 Looking at Glaucoma Surgery
Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS

Appendix A Surgical Supplies, Instruments, and Implants for the Operating Room
Nathan Radcliffe, MD

Appendix B Diagnostic and Procedural Codes for Glaucoma and Glaucoma Surgery
Nathan Radcliffe, MD

Appendix C Informed Consent in Glaucoma Surgery
Nathan Radcliffe, MD

Appendix D Surgical Dictation Examples
Nathan Radcliffe, MD and
Anna-Maria Demetriades, MD

Appendix E Commonly Used Laser Settings
Nathan Radcliffe, MD

Financial Disclosures
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