DESCRIPTION:
This book will focus for the first time on how to avoid complications of uveitis, or how to deal with them either surgically or medically. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that all other books available on the subject of uveitis concentrate on pathogenesis, natural course, diagnosis and treatment of the uveitic entity itself, barely touching complications arising from inflammation.
This book will be divided in chapters, each of them concentrating on a particular portion of the eye, from front to back, and how it can get affected by complications from inflammation. Inflammatory diseases causing these complications will be just superficially touched, the main focus will be the pathogenesis of the actual complication, prevention and treatment. Every chapter will be introduced by a section by a uveitis specialist on how inflammation can cause that particular complication, and how we can avoid it. Then a specialist in the sector (cornea surgeon, glaucoma surgeon, etc) will describe management of the complication.
This multi-disciplinary approach to complications of uveitis will provide to the readers the tools to prevent them, or to correctly manage the. It will be a book mainly directed to uveitis specialist but that could also interest other specialists.
CONTENTS:
Band Keratopathy
Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency in Inflammatory Disorders
Herpetic Corneal Opacities
Iris Complications in Uveitis
Lens Complications in Uveitis
The Repair of Dislocated Intraocular Lenses and the Placement of Secondary Intraocular Lenses in the Setting of Uveitis
Ciliary Processes Complications from Uveitis
Hypertensive Uveitis
Medical and Surgical Management of Uveitic Glaucoma
Inflammatory Choroidal Vascular Membranes
Treatment of Inflammatory Choroidal Neovascular Membranes
Pathophysiology of Uveitic Macular Edema
Differential Diagnosis of Uveitic Macular Edema
Multimodal Imaging of Uveitic Macular Edema
Treatment of Uveitic Macular Edema
Epiretinal Membranes and Subretinal Fibrosis
Retinal Detachment in Uveitis
Surgical Considerations in the Uveitic Patient
The Role of Endoscopy in Uveitic Eyes
Retinal and Choroidal Biopsies
