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Posterior Uveitis

Advances in Imaging and Treatment

  • This updated edition features clinically essential and expertly-illustrated figures
  • Written by world-renowned authors from a variety of medical disciplines
  • Provides a comprehensive discussion of ocular imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of various uveitis and intraocular inflammation

Part of the book series: Essentials in Ophthalmology (ESSENTIALS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Non-Infectious Posterior or Pan Uveitis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Ocular Sarcoidosis

      • Padmamalini Mahendradas, Ankush Kawali, Sujay Chauhan
      Pages 21-38
    3. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease and Sympathetic Ophthalmia

      • Jeffrey J. Tan, Narsing A. Rao
      Pages 39-56
    4. Multifocal Choroiditis/Serpiginous Choroiditis and Related Entities

      • Hossein Nazari Khanamiri, Narsing A. Rao
      Pages 57-75
  4. Infectious Posterior or Panuveitis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Ocular Toxoplasmosis

      • Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos-Santos
      Pages 79-97
    3. Ocular Syphilis

      • Francesco Pichi, Thomas A. Albini
      Pages 99-113
    4. Ocular Tuberculosis

      • Soumyava Basu
      Pages 115-124
    5. Viral Retinitis

      • Dana Yousef Darwish, Mei Zhou, Ann-Marie Lobo
      Pages 125-139
    6. Intraocular Lymphoma: A Posterior Uveitis Masquerade Syndrome

      • Brian K. Do, Jesse L. Berry, Damien C. Rodger
      Pages 141-156
  5. Non-Infectious Uveitis: Treatment Options

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. Noninfectious Uveitis: Systemic and Local Corticosteroids

      • Ashleigh Laurin Levison
      Pages 159-174
    3. Noninfectious Uveitis: Immunomodulatory Agents and Biologicals

      • John A. Gonzales, Nisha Acharya
      Pages 175-207
    4. Noninfectious Uveitis: Emerging Therapies

      • Julie Schallhorn
      Pages 209-225
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 227-232

About this book

This comprehensive text provides readers with an in-depth examination of posterior uveitis, and expert instruction on diagnosis, imaging techniques and treatments that are being reshaped by advancements in the field. Posterior Uveitis: Advances in Imaging and Treatment focuses on the ocular imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of various uveitis and intraocular inflammation entities resulting from infectious and non-infectious etiologies. Each topic is succinctly presented by experts in the field of intraocular inflammation and ocular imaging and starts with salient clinical features, differential diagnosis and specific treatment, and concludes with in-depth and relevant clinical imaging findings. The book opens by touring a multitude of infectious and non-infectious uveitidies and explores how advances are aiding our diagnosis and treatment.  The second half will delve into established and emerging therapeutics, including advances in drug delivery. Evolving treatments for recalcitrant uveitis are discussed, including the newer biological agents, and each chapter includes ample illustrations and several tables for readers to comprehend with ease the inflammatory disorders and to interpret the imaging changes in various uveitis entities.

Reviews

“This book is a very worthwhile endeavor, indeed, as uveitis accounts for a significant proportion of preventable blindness despite its relative rarity as a condition in the field of ophthalmology. This book is written for ophthalmologists who wish to increase their knowledge about uveitis. As the field is constantly growing, ophthalmologists do need a nearly constant stream of updates, and books such as this fulfill that need.” (Diana V Do, Doody's Book Reviews, July 12, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ophthalmology, USC Roski Eye Institute Ophthalmology, Los Angeles, USA

    Narsing A. Rao

  • Department of Ophthalmology and Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    Julie Schallhorn

  • Department of Ophthalmology, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

    Damien C. Rodger

About the editors

Narsing A. Rao, MD, is professor of ophthalmology and director of the Uveitis Service and the Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory at USC. He is involved in the treatment of inflammatory ocular diseases affecting the uveal tract, vitreous, retina, and sclera. Dr. Rao has published over 440 peer-reviewed papers in clinical and basic science findings and has received numerous honors and awards for his research endeavors on ocular inflammatory diseases from Research to Prevent Blindness and the National Institute of Health. He delivered several named lectures, both national and international, including visiting professorship at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, University of Paris, France, Moorefields Eye Institute, London, University of Rome, Italy, Tokyo Medical University, Kyushu University in Fukoka, Japan, and University of Sydney.


For his outstanding contributions to ophthalmology, he was awarded the Lorenz E. Zimmerman medal from American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Ramon L. Font medal from Pan American Society of Ophthalmology, the International Ocular Inflammation Society Award, and received an award from European Vision and Eye Research Association in 2006. Dr. Rao was also the recipient of the prestigious Bietti medal from International Council of Ophthalmology.


Narsing A. Rao, MD

Department of Ophthalmology

USC-Roski Eye Institute

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

USA 




Damien C. Rodger, MD, PhD, worked as a co-op intern at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on attitude control microsystems for unmanned space exploration while completing his Bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 2000. Dr. Rodger then earned his Medical Degree from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and his PhD in bioengineering from the California Institute of Technology. Heis Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at USC. He was awarded the Heed Fellowship for the 2013-2014 year and the Ronald G. Michels Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery for the 2014-2015 year. He specializes in medical and surgical retina, as well as in uveitis and ocular inflammation.


Damien C. Rodger MD, PhD

Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Department of Ophthalmology

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

Los Angeles, CA

USA




Julie M. Schallhorn, MD, MS, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Keck Medicine of USC. She specializes in the surgical treatment of cataracts, corneal transplantation, lens implantation, and anterior segment disease. Her research interests include optical coherence tomography and its applications to the anterior segment, new methods of corneal transplantation, refractive surgery and ocular inflammatory diseases.


Julie Schallhorn, MD MS

Department of Ophthalmology

F.I. Proctor Foundation

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

USA



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Posterior Uveitis

  • Book Subtitle: Advances in Imaging and Treatment

  • Editors: Narsing A. Rao, Julie Schallhorn, Damien C. Rodger

  • Series Title: Essentials in Ophthalmology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03140-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03139-8Published: 28 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03140-4Published: 19 March 2019

  • Series ISSN: 1612-3212

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-890X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ophthalmology

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Hardcover Book USD 119.99
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