Glaucoma Update VI

General Aspects.- Definitions, Terminology, and a New Way of Staging Glaucoma.- Remote Ophthalmology Care in Northern Finland The Application of Teleophthalmology in Examining Patients with Glaucoma.- Pigment Dispersion Syndrome.- Risk Factors in Pigmentary Glaucoma.- The Vascular Pharmacology of Ocular Hypotensive Drugs: A New Approach to the Therapy of Visual Loss.- Genetics.- Myocilin Mutations in Families with Late-Onset Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma.- Characterization of a Large Family with Adult-Onset Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Caused.- by a Mutation in the GLCIA Gene.- Pitfalls in Mutation Screening for the Gene TIGR/MYOC.- TIGR/MYOC Gene Mutations Found in Japanese POAG Patients.- Gene Therapy of Cultured Rat Retinal Ganglion Cells.- Blood Flow.- Optic Nerve Head Blood Flow Measured by Laser-Doppler Flowmetry.- Change in the Optic Nerve Head Caused by Endothelin-l-Induced Chronic Ischaemia.- Effects of Ifenprodil on Aqueous Dynamics and Ocular Circulation.- Perfusion-Map Variations Demonstrate the Activity of the Retinal Autoregulation System in the Human Retina.- The Primate Optic Nerve Following Chronic Ischemia.- Visual Function.- Multifocal Electroretinogram and Visual-Field Defects in Patients with Glaucoma.- Association of Blue-on-Yellow Visual Field with Optic Disc and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer.- Comparison of Convention al and High-Pass Resolution Perimetry in a Prospective Study of Patient s with Glaucoma and Normal Controls.- Third Generation Rapid Algorithms for Static Computerised Perimetry, SITA. Development, Results and Observations.- Frequency-Doubling Threshold Perimetry in Glaucoma, Glaucoma Suspect, and Normal Eyes.- The Spatial Distribution and Severity of Visual Field Defects in Asians with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma and Primary Angle-ClosureGlaucoma ".- Normal Pressure Glaucoma.- Chapt er.- Parapapillary Atrophy in the Chronic Open-Angle Glaucomas.- Can Pulsatile Ocular Blood Flow Be a Predictor of Future Visual Field Loss in Normal-Tension Glaucoma?.- Changes in the Optic-Nerve Head over Time in Normal-Tension Glaucoma.- Role of Trabeculectomy and Calcium-Channel Blockers in the Treatment of Normal-Tension Glaucoma.- Angle Closure Glaucoma.- Medical Therapy in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma: a Model for Evaluation of Its Efficacy.- Quantitative Ultrasound Biomicroscopy.- Medical Therapy.- Occurrence of Cystoid Macular Edema in Eyes Treated with Latanoprost: Preliminary Analysis.- Cytoskeletal and Cell-Junctional Modulation of Aqueous Outflow.- Prostaglandin Effects on the Uveoscleral-Outflow Pathway.- A Comparison of the Ocular Hypotensive Efficacy, Safety and Acceptability of Brimonidine 0.2% Twice Daily Versus Pilocarpine 2.0% Thrice Daily as Adjunct Therapy with Beta-Blockers.- Surgery.- Classification of Developing Filtering Blebs after Trabeculectomy.- Surgery.- Effects of Irrigation on Mitomycin-C Concentration and Pharmacokinetics Parameters in Rabbit's Eyes.- Investigation of the Lectin from the Edible Mushroom Agaricus bisporus as an Inhibitory Modulator of Healing after Trabeculectomy.- Non-Penetrating Trabeculectomy with Aspiration of the Inner Wall of Schlemm's Canal and Juxtacanalicular Trabeculum.- Non-Penetrating Deep Sclerectomy with Collagen Device Versus Trabeculectomy.- Surgery.- A Retrospective Analysis of the Incidence of Endophthalmitis in Eyes with Chronic Bleb Leaks.- Retinectomy Lowers Intraocular Pressure in Otherwise Intractable Glaucoma. Long-Term Follow-Up.- 5-Methylurapidil, 8-Iso Prostaglandin E2: New Drugs to Increase Aqueous-Humor Outflow Facility.- Aqueous ShuntingProcedures Versus Trabeculectomy with Antimetabolites for Surgical Control of Glaucoma: An (International?) Clinical Trial.- Can Our Patients Afford Our Scepticism?.