| Past Issue | Volume 7, Number 4, 2005 | | Asia Pacific Glaucoma Guidelines |
Ivan Goldberg
Eye Associates; Glaucoma Services, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, Australia
During the past 20 years, increasing data from across the Asia Pacific region have highlighted the varying prevalence and incidence rates, diagnostic types, and behaviours of different glaucoma disease patterns encountered by the ophthalmological community. What is relevant, timely, and applicable in one part of the world may not be in another, and it was felt that there was a need for guidelines relevant to the Asia Pacific region. In 2003 to 2004, the South East Asia Glaucoma Interest Group, with the support of the Asian Oceanic Glaucoma Society, published the Asia Pacific Glaucoma Guidelines. By increasing awareness and knowledge of the glaucomas and their detection and management across the Asia Pacific region, the Asia Pacific Glaucoma Guidelines aim to reduce glaucomatous visual disability and to provide a rational basis for glaucoma management in a cost-effective manner.
Key Words: Asia, Glaucoma, Guidelines
Asian J Ophthalmol 2005;7(4):125.
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