Glaucoma Imaging (eBook)

Antonio Ferreras, MD, PhD, is a Consultant Ophthalmologist who works at the Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain and the Aragon Health Sciences Institute, University of Zaragoza. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza since 2007. Until 2010 he worked as a glaucoma and cataract surgeon, and he is currently a vitreoretinal and cataract surgeon. Dr. Ferreras has been involved in numerous clinical trials and his research has included the diagnosis of glaucoma by means of high-definition optical coherence tomography and scanning laser polarimetry with enhanced corneal compensation.  He is the recipient of an International Ophthalmologist Education Award (2009) and an Achievement Award (2013) from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Ferreras is a member of the editorial board of Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine and a member of the International Journal of Ophthalmology Expert Board. He has been guest editor for a Journal of Ophthalmology special edition on “Different aspects in different glaucomas” (2010-11) and for the BioMed Research International special issue on “Advances in imaging technologies for evaluating the retina and the optic disc” (2014). He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications.

​Standard Automated Perimetry.- Gonioscopy.- Measurement of Intraocular Pressure.- Clinical Applications of Ultrasound Biomicroscopy in Glaucoma.- Retrobulbar Ocular Blood Flow Evaluation in Open Angle Glaucoma.- Optic Nerve Head Assessment and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Evaluation.- Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (HRT).- Detection of Glaucoma Using Scanning Laser Polarimetry.- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT).- Measuring Hemoglobin Levels in the Optic Nerve Head for Glaucoma Management.- Structure & Function Relationship in Glaucoma.- Assessment of Structural Glaucoma Progression.