Glaucoma Drainage Devices

Glaucoma - Basic understanding an management choices.- Indicators of glaucoma drainage devices.- Contraindicators for glaucoma drainage devices.- The glaucoma drainage devices - types and models.- Preparing the patients for glaucoma drainage devices surgery.- The ideal glaucoma drainage devices for patient - which one to choose.- Surgical techniques for Ahmed Glaucoma valve - the limbal approach.- Surgical techniques for Ahmed Glaucoma valve - the pars plana approach.- Surgical techniques for Bearveldt glaucoma devices.- Surgical technique aravind aqueous drainage devices.- Glaucoma drainage devices in special cases.- Combined surgeries: Glaucoma drainage devices and cataract.- Combined surgeries: Glaucoma drainage devices and penetrating kerotoplasty.- Combined surgeries: Glaucoma drainage devices and vitrectomy.- Combined surgeries: Glaucoma drainage devices in pediatric glaucoma.- Modifications of surgical techniques in glaucoma drainage devices.- Complications associated with glaucoma drainage devices surgeries and their management.- Post operative care and followup of the patient with glaucoma drainage device.- Histological considerations of glaucoma drainage devices.- Quality of life considerations of glaucoma drainage device.- Important clinical trials: Glaucoma drainage devices.- Newer glaucoma drainage devices.

Dr Monica Gandhi is currently working as a senior consultant in glaucoma and anterior segment at Dr Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India. She is an Alumnus of Maulana Azad Medical College and Guru Nanak Eye centre, under the University of Delhi. A former glaucoma fellow at the Glaucoma Imaging Centre under Prof NN Sood, she has several publications and book chapters on glaucoma to her credit. Besides her keen interest in clinical and surgical training for fellows, she is also committed to mentoring fellows and trainees in their research work.

Dr Shibal Bhartiya is currently working as a senior consultant glaucoma surgeon at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, and Fortis Fl Lt Rajan Dhall hospital, New Delhi, India. She has a special interest in glaucoma diagnosis and management, and ocular surface diseases. She was a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Glaucoma services of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University ofGeneva, Switzerland. Prior to that, she did her glaucoma training as Senior Research Associate in the Cornea and Glaucoma services at Dr R P Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi.

She has published extensively on glaucoma, contributing numerous articles and book chapters alike. She has co-edited the prestigious ISGS Textbook of Glaucoma Surgery, Manual of Glaucoma, and Practical Perimetry; has co-authored Living with Glaucoma; and is the managing editor of the Video Atlas of Glaucoma Surgery.

An avid educator and researcher, she has been responsible for the design and execution of many clinical trials involving both clinical and basic research. She serves as a reviewer for many ophthalmology journals, and is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Current Glaucoma Practice, the official journal of the International Society of Glaucoma Surgery. She is also the Editor in Chief of Clinical and Experimental Vision and Eye Research.