Second European Glaucoma Symposium, Helsinki, May 1984

One: Visual Function in Glaucoma.- Present and future of computer assisted perimetry in glaucoma: selected topics.- Psychophysics in glaucoma. A modified concept of the disease.- Psychological factors in computer assisted perimetry; automatic and semi-automatic perimetry (abstract).- Optic disc densitometric data and delayed VECP in glaucoma.- Correlation or non-correlation between glaucomatous field loss as determined by automated perimetry and changes in the surface of the optic disc?.- Computerized analysis of visual fields.- The visual field quantification issue.- Computerized location of fluctuation changes in glaucomatous visual fields.- The Humphrey Field Analyzer: concepts and clinical results.- Perimetry in congenital and infantile glaucoma.- Computerized perimetric program for detection of early glaucomatous defects.- Early glaucomatous visual field defects in computerized perimetry (Octopus 201) and tangent screen (Bjerrum Kampimetry) (abstract).- Two: Medical Therapy.- Rabbit IOP and vitreous, lens and aqueous weights after various diuretics and water loading test. The influence of optic nerve transection.- Effect of adrenergic agonists and ?1/?2 antagonists on intraocular pressure and adenylate cyclase in rabbit ciliary processes (abstract).- Relative distribution of epinephrine, pilocarpine and timolol in the rabbit eye.- Location of ?-adrenergic receptors in the cornea and ciliary body of the rabbit (abstract).- Effect of ocular pigmentation on ocular disposition, metabolism and biophasic availability of pilocarpine.- The comparative ocular responses of pilocarpine ophthalmic rods and pilocarpine eye drops.- The influence on the capillary blood volume of the optic nerve head exerted by beta-blocking agents with and without intrinsic sympatomimeticactivity.- (—)-propanolol in the isolated rabbit iris.- Comparison of different ?-blockers in open angle glaucomas.- The effect of d-timolol on intraocular pressure in patients with ocular hypertension (abstract).- The effects of timolol use in glaucoma patients under the age of 17 years.- Levobunolol: Minimum concentration required to control IOP in subjects with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension (abstract).- Long-term treatment of chronic open angle glaucoma with topical Pindolol 1%.- Maximal medical treated glaucoma patients.- Levobunolol: A new beta-adrenoceptor antagonist for the treatment of glaucoma (abstract).- Eye irritation caused by topical beta-blocker therapy. A new methodological screening approach.- Three: Laser Treatment.- Laser trabeculoplasty.- Computerized perimetry before and after trabeculoplasty. A study of the short-term effect.- Effect of Argon laser trabeculoplasty in open angle glaucoma: our experiences.- Argon laser trabeculoplasty. Variation of methods and immediate complications.- Early and late effects intraocular pressure of the treatment mode of laser trabeculoplasty.- Gonioretraction vs. trabeculoplasty.- Cyclotrabeculospasis — a new and simple method of laser treatment in glaucoma.- The immediate IOP responses after neodymium YAG laser iridotomy in the human eye (abstract).- Argon laser trabeculoplasty in chronic open angle glaucoma.- Laser-prophylaxis of neovascular glaucoma.- Ocular effect of neodymium-YAG laser (abstract).- Argon laser trabeculoplasty after trabeculectomy.- Experimental and clinical laser iridectomy with Argon and Nd YAG Q switched laser.- Four: Surgical Treatment.- Surgery and its documentation in glaucoma.- Scleral changes after diathermy and incision (scanning electron microscope study).-Long-term observations on goniotrephination.- Ten year prospective follow-up of a glaucoma operation. The Double Flap Scheie in primary open angle glaucoma.- Long-term observations after trephination with scleral-flap in glaucoma with treatened point of fixation.- Valve trabeculotomy and filtering iridocycloretraction in glaucoma.- A new approach for chamber angle surgery.- Gonioscopic trabeculectomy. First results.- Experimental and clinical consideration of direct cyclodiathermy.- Research on the mechanism of trabeculectomy: the main pathway of the aqueous humor.- The trabeculo-keratencleizis under scleral flap.- A modification of Cohan’s filtering corneal trephination (abstract).- Five: Miscellaneous Subjects.- Variation in anterior chamber volume during the pilocarpine/phenylephrine provocative test.- Unilateral angle closure glaucoma: a biometric study.- Limbal and axial chamber depth. Variations. Detection of primary angle-closure glaucoma (abstract).- Value of ultrasonographic biometry in congenital glaucoma.- Astigmatism and amblyopia in congenital glaucoma.- Hereditary juvenile glaucoma.- Chronic open-angle glaucoma with exfoliation syndrome. Long-term functional prognosis of treated and regularly followed patients.- Baring of the optic disc circumlinear vessels in ocular hypertension and glaucoma.- Glaucomatous alterations of the optic disc in high myopia.- Orbital haemodynamics and aqueous humour dynamics in diseases of the carotid-cavernous and vertebro-basilar systems.- Panretinal photocoagulation treatment of severe, complicated glaucoma (abstract).- Hemorrhagic glaucoma after intraocular operations.- Blood and plasma viscosity measurements in glaucoma patients (abstract).- Secondary glaucoma in reactive lymphoid hyperplasia of the conjunctiva and uvealtract.- The natural course of open angle glaucoma (poster exhibition).- Goniodysgenesis in elderly glaucoma and non-glaucoma patients. A masked biomicroscopic study of the anterior segment (abstract).