A brief review of the common systemic side effects of the various medications used to treat
glaucoma on an outpatient basis has been presented. This review is not complete, and the …

The safety profile of the different glaucoma medications is an important issue when initiating
therapy in glaucomatous patients. The decision on which medication to prescribe depends …

In March of 1987 the Howard University Hospital Division of Ophthalmology and St. Croix
Hospital co-sponsored a symposium on glaucoma. It was an appropriate joint venture, as …

Antiglaucomatous ocular side effects can be divided into specific and non specific ones. Non
specific ocular side effects are mainly caused by preservative agents; they are essentially …

Glaucoma, whether spontaneous or drug-induced, is caused in nearly all instances by
abnormal resistance to outflow of aqueous humor to the veins on the outer surface of the …

The long-term regulation of intraocular pressure is remarkably independent of other
physiologic and pathologic variables in the human organism. On the other hand, intraocular …

Most patients with relatively early glaucomatous damage can be satisfactorily managed with
topically or orally administered medications. These drugs, however, can sometimes cause …

The following article appeared in the December 1984 issue of this Journal. It is being
reprinted here as the first printing contained a transposition error beyond the author's …

In New South Wales, Australia, in 1963 it became legally possible for qualified optometrists
to employ drugs in their examination procedure when-ever they felt that such use was of …

Seventy-one unselected patients with newly diagnosed open angle glaucoma were
included in a prospective multicenter study of medical treatment, intraocular pressure …