Glaucoma story (Glaucoma Investigation)

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the definition and underlying mechanisms of glaucomatous optic nerve damage.
• Identify risk factors and learn how to take a comprehensive patient history.
• Learn the goals of glaucoma management, including:
• Disease staging
• Establishing target IOP
• Treatment planning
• Master the use of key diagnostic tools:
• Visual Field (VF) interpretation, patterns, and global indices (MD)
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): including ONH, NFLT, GCC, and MRW
• Conduct detailed optic disc assessments, including the 8 essential parameters such as:
• Disc size, NRR, cup symmetry, hemorrhages, peripapillary atrophy, etc.
• Get introduced to emerging technologies like:
• OCT-Angiography (OCT-A) for vascular mapping
• Choroidal thickness measurement
• Address diagnostic challenges such as:
• Myopia-related false positives
• Lack of consensus on disc margins