Naslov
Glaucoma Patients and Contact Lenses – How to Fit – How to Treat?

Autori
Salopek-Rabatić, Jasminka ; Pavan, Josip ; Kaštelan, Snježana ; Rabatić, Leon

Izvornik
Collegium antropologicum (0350-6134) 37 Supplement 1 (2013), 1; 195-198

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
glaucoma ; therapy approach ; contact lenses ; care solutions ; preservatives ; quality of life ; advantages of fit /diagnostic

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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti, Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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