Eye on the bayou : new concepts in glaucoma, cataract, and neuro-ophthalmology : proceedings of the 54th Annual Symposium of the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology, New Orleans, LA, USA, February 18-20, 2005

"Buzz Bissinger's Friday NightLights isan American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book toois destined to become a classic. I devoured it." — John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity.As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps.Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4thand 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal.The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl." Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl"would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not.It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 President’s letter......Page 9 Contributors......Page 10 Neuro-Ophthalmology......Page 14 Ten easy mistakes to avoid in your next neuro-ophthalmic patient......Page 16 Life-threatening diplopia with pupil involvement......Page 24 Optic neuritis: What’s hot and what’s not.........Page 32 What to tell your next patient with non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) ... other than “nothing can be done”......Page 38 MRI and CT: Which is which, why to order, and when......Page 44 Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in neuro-ophthalmology......Page 52 Round Table The pale nerve......Page 60 Questions and Answers......Page 66 Glaucoma......Page 72 Risk factors for open-angle glaucoma......Page 74 Does either sex or ethnicity matter in glaucoma?......Page 78 Low tension glaucoma: A bad concept that just won’t die. So how do you deal with it?......Page 88 Neuroprotection strategies from the research lab (‘cause there......Page 92 The myth of the glaucoma continuum......Page 96 Landmark clinical trials in glaucoma: Questions and answers......Page 102 Practical implications of the Collaborative Normal Tension......Page 112 What have we learned from the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study thus far?......Page 116 Round Table Critiquing the clinical trials......Page 124 Psychophysics......Page 134 Update on short wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) and frequency doubling technology (FDT) in glaucoma and neuroophthalmologic disorders*......Page 136 Questions and Answers......Page 148 New developments in perimetry, including SITA, ZEST and......Page 150 Evaluation of visual field loss in glaucoma: Progression and......Page 160 Round Table Detecting and monitoring progression......Page 172 Anterior Segment Surgery......Page 182 Toxic anterior segment syndrome......Page 184 Questions and Answers......Page 186 Laser trabeculoplasty – background, mechanisms, clinical......Page 190 How to stay out of trouble managing trabeculectomies......Page 200 Simple strategies to improve the safety of trabeculectomy: The Moorfields Safer Surgery System......Page 208 Round Table Building a better drainage system – perfecting the trabeculectomy......Page 220 Questions and Answers......Page 228 Questions and Answers......Page 234 Slit lamp procedures in postoperative glaucoma management......Page 238 Round Table Surgical choices: Trabs, tubes and Betadine......Page 250 Index of authors......Page 256