DESCRIPTION:
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.
- 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.
CONTENTS:
PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS
Elements of the Immune System and Concepts of Intraocular
Inflammatory Disease Pathogenesis
PART 2: DIAGNOSIS
Medical History in the Patient with Uveitis
Examination of the Patient with Uveitis
Development of a Differential Diagnosis
Diagnostic Testing and Imaging
Optical Coherence Tomography in Uveitis
Evidence-Based Medicine in Uveitis
PART 3: MEDICAL THERAPY AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION
Approaches to Medical Therapy
Role of Surgery in the Patient with Uveitis
PART 4: INFECTIOUS UVEITIC CONDITIONS
Bacterial and Fungal Diseases
Spirochetal Diseases
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acute Retinal Necrosis and Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis
Other Viral Diseases
Ocular Toxoplasmosis
Ocular Histoplasmosis
Ocular toxacariasis
Onchocerciasis and Other Parasitic Diseases
Postsurgical Uveitis
PART 5: NON INFECTIOUS UVEITIC CONDITIONS
Anterior Uveitis
Scleritis
Intermediate Uveitis
Sarcoidosis
Sympathetic Ophthalmia
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
Behçet""s Disease
Retinal Vasculitis
Serpiginous Choroidopathy
White-Dot Syndromes
Masquerade Syndromes
