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Chief Medical Editor’s Page

• Ushering in a New Era

  By Steven D. Vold, MD

The Literature

• The Literature

  By Melissa (Wen-Jeng) Yao, MD, and Jeffrey S. Schultz, MD

• Clinician Scientist’s Corner

  By Christopher A. Girkin, MD

Research Results

• Highlights From ARVO 2012

  Practical research may lead to the better care of patients with glaucoma.

  By Albert S. Khouri, MD, and Tony Realini, MD, MPH

Landmark Studies

• The Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study—What We Have Learned so Far

  By Jess T. Whitson, MD

Challenging Cases

• A Modified Trabeculectomy After Scleral Buckle, Complicated Cataract Extraction, and DSAEK

  By Anurag Shrivastava, MD

Technology Today

• EMRs to Facilitate Glaucoma Management

  Technology can help us to communicate with primary health providers to coordinate care.

  By George Shafranov, MD

Cover Stories:
The Principles of Glaucoma Management

• The Key Elements of a Glaucoma History and Workup

  These steps are imperative to accurate diagnosis and treatment.

  By Yara P. Catoira-Boyle, MD

• What Is the Role of Imaging in Glaucoma Care?

  This technology enhances physicians’ ability to diagnose disease and its progression, but clinical acumen is still essential.

  By Ian Conner, MD, PhD, and Joel S. Schuman, MD

• Deciding on First-Line Medical Therapy

  Recently released preservative-free agents will create a new paradigm for the treatment of glaucoma.

  By Lawrence M. Hurvitz, MD

• What Is Maximal Medical Therapy in 2012?

  The answer is highly variable and influenced by commercial considerations, the patient, and the physician.

  By Nicholas P. Bell, MD

• Adjunctive Medical Therapy for Glaucoma

  Optimizing patients’ outcomes.

  By Henry D. Jampel, MD, MHS

• When Is Laser Trabeculoplasty Indicated as First-Line Treatment?

  This proven and effective treatment modality is a powerful option for initial IOP lowering in the newly diagnosed glaucomatous or ocular hypertensive patient.

  By Ahmad A. Aref, MD

• Can Surgeons Perform a Better Trabeculectomy?

  The procedure is still viable.

  By Richard A. Lehrer, MD

• Advice on Glaucoma Drainage Devices

  Technical pearls and advice on selecting a device for tube shunt surgery.

  By Boris Dilman, MD, and Anjali S. Hawkins, MD, PhD

Practice Pointers

• New Glaucoma Staging Codes: Is It Worth Adding Them?

  Stratifying the disease may improve communication between physicians and their patients and educate payors.

  By Ronald L. Fellman, MD

Inside Eyetube.net

• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants on Eyetube.net

  By Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD

• 5 Questions With Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH

  Dr. Singh predicts how microinvasive glaucoma surgery will affect ophthalmologists’ treatment of the disease and describes one of his star-studded evenings.

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