Overview
- Multidisciplinary
- Comprehensive, covering epidemiology, genetics, molecular, cellular, and tissue responses to glaucomas
Part of the book series: Ophthalmology Research (OPHRES)
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Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Epidemiology of Glaucoma
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Mechanisms of Intraocular Pressure Elevation in the Glaucomas
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About this book
The mechanisms of the various forms of glaucoma were unknown at the outset of the twentieth century. Late in the twentieth century, two nascent areas of research were beginning to provide glimpses of what the twenty-first century held in store for the future of glaucoma: the mechanisms of glaucomatous optic neuropathy and the molecular basis of the glaucomas. In Mechanisms of the Glaucomas: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities, the authors review the most current knowledge available in the field and provide a basis in which researchers can effectively study the glaucomas. The intent of the book is not primarily to describe the clinical appearances of the glaucomas nor how to manage them. Rather, it is to provide basic scientists, who are working in the field of glaucoma, with a current understanding of the clinical aspects of glaucoma, and to provide clinician scientists with the basic knowledge, as they attempt to translate it into rational treatments for glaucoma. In this important new book leaders in the various fields of glaucoma review our current understanding of glaucoma from epidemiology and genetics through molecular, cellular and tissue responses to the mechanisms of the glaucomas and the mechanisms by which we manage them. Mechanisms of the Glaucomas: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities will be of great value as its contents will aid the reader in prevention of blindness from glaucoma.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mechanisms of the Glaucomas
Book Subtitle: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities
Editors: Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J. Barnstable, M. Bruce Shields
Series Title: Ophthalmology Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-373-8
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-956-7Published: 23 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-927-7Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-59745-373-8Published: 06 June 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 762
Topics: Ophthalmology