title: Glaucoma patients and contact lenses--how to fit--how to treat?
abstract: 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 because 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Zagreb, Dubrava University Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb, Croatia. salopekj@kbd.hr
authors.forename: Jasminka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salopek-Rabatić
authors.forename: Josip
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pavan
authors.forename: Snjezana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kastelan
authors.forename: Leon
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rabatić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003261:Contact Lenses; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life