Comm Eye Health Vol. 25 No. 79 & 80 2012. Published online 05 February, 2013
Primary open-angle glaucoma
In this special double issue, we discuss how to effectively address primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) through the careful involvement of many different people, including health workers, the patient, non-clinical staff, and health planners.
Articles in this issue –
- Primary open-angle glaucoma: everyone’s business
- Patients and glaucoma: what are the challenges?
- Raising public awareness of glaucoma in Ethiopia
- Setting standards for glaucoma care
- Detecting possible glaucoma with only limited equipment: a crucial first step
- The next step: detailed assessment of an adult glaucoma patient
- Conversations with glaucoma patients
- The optic nerve head in glaucoma
- How to test for a relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD)
- How to measure intraocular pressure: applanation tonometry
- What is wrong with my vision, and what can I do?
- How to verify the calibration of Goldmann tonometers
- Visual field testing for glaucoma – a practical guide
- Managing a patient with open-angle glaucoma: a case study
- Post-operative management of trabeculectomy in the first three months
- When trabeculectomy fails
- Medical treatment of open-angle glaucoma
- Instilling your own eye drops
- How communities can control trachoma without a big budget
- Glaucoma glossary
- Visual fields interpretation in glaucoma: a focus on static automated perimetry
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Consulting editor: Nick Astbury
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