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The Glaucoma Treatment Paradigm: An Overview

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The only evidence-based, accepted, and the most practiced therapeutic modality for management of glaucoma patients is reducing intraocular pressure. Topical ocular hypotensive medications, as well as laser and incisional glaucoma filtering surgeries, all aim to decrease the IOP, thereby preventing visual field damage by decreasing the rate of retinal ganglion cells death.

This chapter aims to provide an objective overview of current glaucoma practice in order to help decision-making for clinicians.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, India

    Shibal Bhartiya

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India

    Parul Ichhpujani

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Monica Gandhi

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  1. Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Monica Gandhi

  2. Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, India

    Shibal Bhartiya

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Bhartiya, S., Ichhpujani, P., Gandhi, M. (2019). The Glaucoma Treatment Paradigm: An Overview. In: Gandhi, M., Bhartiya, S. (eds) Glaucoma Drainage Devices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5773-2_1

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