Surgical Techniques in Ophthalmology: Glaucoma Surgery

by Ashok Garg, Boris Malyugin, Bojan Pajic, Tanuj Dada, Jorge L Alio, Jerome Jean Bovet, Roberto G Carassa, André Mermoud, Jes N Mortensen, Shlomo Melamed, Ehud I Assia, Ahmad K Khalil, CS Dhull, Gabor B Scharioth, Gabriel Simon

Ophthalmic surgery technology has undergone rapid advancements and innovations in last two decades. From modest and conventional surgical techniques in early eighties, now it has become high-tech surgery with least indoor stay and excellent visual outcomes. Microincision surgery in both anterior and posterior segments, corneal and lenticular refractive surgery, modern keratoplasty techniques, pediatric and strabismus surgery, oculoplasty and reconstructive surgery and stem cell transplantation have entirely changed the scenario in ophthalmic surgery today. Modern ophthalmic surgery is a vast subject. It is important for ophthalmologists to master various surgical steps in the ophthalmic surgery procedures of their interest. The present series of Surgical Techniques in Ophthalmology contains eight volumes. This volume is dedicated to Glaucoma Surgery, which is one of the most important and rapidly improving branches of ophthalmic surgery. All conventional and recently introduced high-tech glaucoma techniques are discussed in details step-by-step for the benefit of the ophthalmic surgeons worldwide, who want to master these techniques to deal with glaucoma contingencies in a better and effective way to eradicate one of the leading causes of blindness. Several international master glaucoma surgeons discuss latest glaucoma surgical techniques in a comprehensive and easy-to-read format, especially, minimally penetrative glaucoma surgery with microtubes, various glaucoma shunts, pars plana AGV, canaloplasty, CO2 laser assisted deep sclerectomy and titanium-sapphire laser trabeculoplasty.

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