In Mechanisms of the Glaucomas, the authors review the most current
knowledge available in the field and provide a basis in which
researchers can effectively study the glaucomas. The book's intent is
not primarily to describe the clinical appearances of the glaucomas nor
how to manage them. Rather, it is to provide basic scientists, who are
working in the field of glaucoma, with a current understanding of the
clinical aspects of glaucoma, and to provide clinician scientists with
the basic knowledge, as they attempt to translate it into rational
treatments for glaucoma. In this important new book, leaders in the
various fields of glaucoma review our current understanding of glaucoma
from epidemiology and genetics through molecular, cellular and tissue
responses to the mechanisms of the glaucomas and the mechanisms by which
we manage them. This book will be of great value as its contents will
aid the reader in prevention of blindness from glaucoma.