Surgical Management of Childhood Glaucoma (eBook)

This comprehensive guide thoroughly covers the characteristics and presentations of childhood glaucoma, as well as all surgical options for treatment. Surgical Management of Childhood Glaucoma: Clinical Considerations and Techniques addresses a variety of surgical methods, ranging from angle surgery with recent modifications to cyclodestruction, reviewing each option's particular set of advantages and disadvantages, and features illustrations and instructional videos of these techniques. Later chapters consider best-practices to providing surgery in developing countries, surgical considerations for patients with corneal opacities and cataracts, and the impact of glaucoma upon quality of life of pediatric patients. Written by leaders in the field of ophthalmology, this book offers readers an exceptional resource on the evaluation and surgical management of childhood glaucoma.

Alana L. Grajewski, MD

Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology

Director, Samuel & Ethel Balkan International Pediatric Glaucoma Center

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine 

Elena Bitrian, MD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Senior Associate Consultant

Department of Ophthalmology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Maria Papadopoulos, MBBS, FRCOphth

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon

Glaucoma Service

Moorfields Eye Hospital

London, United Kingdom

Sharon F. Freedman, MD

Professor of Ophthalmology

Department of Ophthalmology

Chief, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Service

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA