Glaucoma Screening.

This is the fifth glaucoma World Glaucoma Association Consensus. As with other consensus topics, the discussion and conclusions of Glaucoma Screening, the subject for the 2008 consensus, will have broad impact. The global faculty, consisting of leading authorities on various aspects of glaucoma scre...

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Main Author: Weinreb, R. N.
Other Authors: Healey, P. R., Topouzis, F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: The Hague : Kugler Publications, 2008
Series:WGA - Consensus Series.
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505 0 |a Faculty; contents; preface; welcome; screening for open-angle glaucoma (oag); is oag an important health; is there an accepted and effective treatment for patients with the disease that is more effective at preventing morbidity when initiated in the early, asymptomatic stage than when begun in the later, ; are facilities for diagnosis and treatment available?; is there an appropriate, acceptable, and reasonably accurate screening test?; is the natural history of the condition, including development from latent to manifest disease, adequately understood? 
505 8 |a Is the cost of case finding (including diagnosis and treatment of patients diagnosed) economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole?screening for primary angle closure and primary angle-closure glaucoma; are angle closure (ac) and angle-closure glaucoma (acg) important health problems?; is there an accepted and effective treatment for patients with angle-closure glaucoma (acg) that is more effective at preve. 
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