Diagnosis and Management of Glaucoma

R Ramakrishan MS DO Chief Medical Officer.Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India R. Krishnadas DO, DNB Senior Consultant.Glaucoma Services.Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India Alan L. Robin MD Associate Professor Ophthalmology and International Health, John Hopkins University, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Mona Khurana MS Consultant, Glaucoma Services, Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

Part 1 Glaucoma—basics

1. Glaucoma in developing countries

2. Epidemiology of glaucoma and the role of glaucoma screening in diagnosis

3. Natural history of glaucoma

4. Genetics of glaucoma and its future

5. Morphology of ONH and pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic atrophy

6. Clinical trials in glaucoma

i. Overview of the major glaucoma clinical trials

ii. What have we learnt from the clinical trails in glaucoma?

7. Prevalence of glaucoma in India and the World

8. Vascular factors in glaucoma

9. Aqueous humor dynamics

10. When and how does glaucoma produce visual disability?

Part 2 Glaucoma—diagnostics

11. History taking in glaucoma

12. Tonometry

(a) Tonometry basics and newer techniques

(b) Recent advancements in tonometry – merits and demerits

13. Gonioscopy

14. Back to basics: structural changes in glaucoma and clinical evaluation of the optic nerve head

15. Visual fields in glaucoma - humphrey

16. Octopus perimetry - a synopsis

17. Progression analysis of glaucoma with octopus perimetry

18. Ultrasound - biomicroscopy in glaucoma

19. Confocal laser scanning tomography principles and clinical utility

20. Imaging in glaucoma

Part 3 Glaucoma – Clinical

21. Classification of Glaucoma

22. Ocular Hypertension

23. Primary Open Angle glaucoma

24. Normal Tension Glaucoma

25. Angle Closure Glaucoma

26. Unilateral Glaucoma

27. Exfoliation Syndrome and Exfolation Glaucoma

28. Pigmentary Dispersion Syndrome and Pigmentary Glaucoma

29. Lens Induced Glaucoma

30. Glaucoma Following Aphakia and Pseudophakia

31. Uveitic glaucoma

32. Neovascular Glacuoma

33. Ocular Trauma and Glaucoma.

34. Steroid Induced Glaucoma

35. Glaucoma associated with Penetrating Keratoplasty

36. Glaucoma in Corneal Disorders

37. Glaucoma Associated with Intraocular Tumors

38. Developmental Glaucoma - An Overview

39. Primary Congenital Glaucoma – Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis & Management

40. Glaucoma In Phakomatosis

Part 4 Glaucoma Therapeutic

41. Medical management of glaucoma

42. Argon laser trabeculoplasty and selective laser trabeculoplasty

43. Laser iridotomy and other procedures

44. History of glaucoma filtering surgeries

45. Wound healing in glaucoma surgery and role of antimetabolites in glaucoma filtering surgery

46. Trabeculectomy - surgical techniques and complications

47. Collagen (ologen) in glaucoma filtering surgery

48. Dysfunctional filtering blebs

49. Cataract and glaucoma

50. Managing cataract and glaucoma in developing world - manual small incision cataract surgery combined with trabeculectomy (MSICS TRAB)

51. Glaucoma drainage devices?

52. Non penetrating filtering surgery (NPFS)?

53. Cyclodestructive procedures

Part 5 Glaucoma–future

54. Neuroprotection in glaucoma

55. Medical management of glaucoma – the future.