Encounters in Glaucoma Research 3: How to Ascertain Progress and Outcome

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Douglas R. Anderson, Stephen M. Drance
Kugler Publications, 1996 - Eye - 357 pages

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Contents

What is quality of life in vision research and clinical practice?
5
The relationship between traditional clinical and functional status outcomes in patients
17
Comparing generic and diseasespecific measurements
35
the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma
45
Use of outcomes in clinical practice
63
Quality of life in an economic context
75
Summation
85
How do we measure functional progression of glaucoma?
91
Analysis of changes in the optic nerve head
195
Changes in the glaucomatous retinal nerve fiber layer
209
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Introduction of session
233
Vascular factors in glaucoma
249
Confocal scanning laser Doppler flowmetry of the retina and optic nerve head
263
mechanical and cellular analysis
277

How do we measure functional progression of glaucoma? Aspects worth considering when
107
Introduction of session continued
139
Quality of life study determination of progression
149
Johnson
166
What constitutes glaucomatous functional progression?
183
Doppler ultrasound blood flow measurement
299
Color Doppler imaging of umbilical and ophthalmic arteries
329
Magnetic resonance angiography
345
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