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Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis

Fundamentals and Clinical Practice

  • 5 Edición - 31 de marzo de 2021
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Scott M. Whitcup, H. Nida Sen
  • Idioma: Inglés

Comprehensive and readable, Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis, 5th Edition, covers every aspect of this complex subspecialty in a single convenient volume. This clinically relevant… Leer más

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Comprehensive and readable, Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis, 5th Edition, covers every aspect of this complex subspecialty in a single convenient volume. This clinically relevant guide covers the medical, pharmacological, and surgical treatment of uveitis in a visually rich, full-color format, offering a complete overview for today’s clinicians. New and updated case studies, key points boxes, and more than 400 images and graphics highlight major clinical points and provide insight into real situations that you can apply in practice.

Puntos claves

  • Features multiple chapters on diagnostic approach to help you meet the challenge of making accurate diagnoses
  • Reflects advancements and new developments on all aspects of uveitis including new medical and surgical treatments
  • Covers key topics such as the use of PCR in diagnostic testing, cataract surgery in patients with uveitis, the use of OCT in diagnosis and treatment, new infectious causes of uveitis (including Zika and Ebola), and novel treatments for inflammatory eye disease
  • Includes new clinical photographs, illustrations, and OCT images throughout
  • Reviews new randomized clinical trials of new uveitis therapy, as well as the approach to patients with HIV and HIV-associated ocular diseases including CMV retinitis and immune recovery uveitis
  • Provides expanded information on masquerade syndromes with important tips on diagnosis and management of intraocular lymphoma
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

De interès para

Ophthalmologists, uveitis sub-specialists and fellows

Índice

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS

1. Elements of the Immune System and Concepts of Intraocular Inflammatory Disease Pathogenesis

PART 2: DIAGNOSIS

2. Medical History in the Patient with Uveitis

3. Examination of the Patient with Uveitis

4. Development of a Differential Diagnosis

5. Diagnostic Testing and Imaging

6. Optical Coherence Tomography in Uveitis

7. Evidence-Based Medicine in Uveitis

PART 3: MEDICAL THERAPY AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION

8. Approaches to Medical Therapy

9. Role of Surgery in the Patient with Uveitis

PART 4: INFECTIOUS UVEITIC CONDITIONS

10. Bacterial and Fungal Diseases

11. Spirochetal Diseases

12. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

13. Acute Retinal Necrosis and Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis

14. Other Viral Diseases

15. Ocular Toxoplasmosis

16. Ocular Histoplasmosis
17. Ocular toxacariasis

18. Onchocerciasis and Other Parasitic Diseases

19. Postsurgical Uveitis

PART 5: NON INFECTIOUS UVEITIC CONDITIONS

20. Anterior Uveitis

21. Scleritis

22. Intermediate Uveitis

23. Sarcoidosis

24. Sympathetic Ophthalmia

25. Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada Syndrome

26. Birdshot Chorioretinopathy

27. Behçet’s Disease

28. Retinal Vasculitis

29. Serpiginous Choroidopathy

30. White-Dot Syndromes

31. Masquerade Syndromes

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 5
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 31 de agosto de 2021
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

SW

Scott M. Whitcup

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Founder and CEO Akrivista and Whitecap Biosciences, Irvine, California; Clinical Faculty, UCLA Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

HS

H. Nida Sen

Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, Director, Uveitis Clinic and Fellowship Program, Head, Clinical and Translational Immunology Unit, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA;

Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, Director of Uveitis Clinic and Fellowship Program, Head of Clinical and Translational Immunology Unit, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD; Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

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