Stručni rad
Glaucoma Patients and Contact Lenses – How to Fit – How to Treat?
Jasminka Salopek-Rabatić
; University of Zagreb, Dubrava University Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Pavan
; University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Snježana Kaštelan
; University of Zagreb, Dubrava University Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb, Croatia
Leon Rabatić
; University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
As the number of glaucoma patients rasing up by aging population, importante is, to point out facts about glaucoma patients as contact lens carriers. Diagnostic and therapy options as well as quality of life are discussed and recommended. Glaucoma as chronic desease needs adequate specific diagnostic procedure as a visual field depending on the right / best visual correction, daily therapy, specific eye drop medication, but also needs daily quality of life for those patients. Advantages of both, quality of therapy and quality of life, is explaned and discussed in connection together. It is possible to treat glaucoma patients with the mixture of different active eye drops becouse of the new glaucoma strategy recently presented, investigated and prescribed as the best therapy approach. The prostaglandines, or the combination of two in one different drugs ( combi) bottle is reality. That means, active medication applied once a day, new preservatives strategy from different manufacturers are discussed and recommended.
Ključne riječi
glaucoma; therapy approach; contact lenses; care solutions; preservatives; quality of life; advantages of fit /diagnostic
Hrčak ID:
102885
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.4.2013.
Posjeta: 492 *