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What’s New in Structural Tests for Glaucoma

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The management of glaucoma relies on timely detection of progression of optic neuropathy over time; therefore, a reliable, repeatable, and reproducible test of the optic nerve and retinal nerve fiber layer structure is quintessential. The fast-paced improvement in technology has contributed a lot to testing of glaucoma; however, the slow progressive nature of the disease requires consistency of test results and also the comparability of technologies when evaluating patients longitudinally. In this chapter, the novel available OCT technologies for structural testing in glaucoma are presented.

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    Carina Torres Sanvicente & M. Reza Razeghinejad

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Sanvicente, C.T., Razeghinejad, M.R. (2019). What’s New in Structural Tests for Glaucoma. In: Ichhpujani, P. (eds) Glaucoma. Current Practices in Ophthalmology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8457-8_2

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