Complications in Uveitis
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Beschreibung
This book focuses on secondary conditions aggravating uveitis. In addition to diagnosing, treating, and managing uveitis as an entity, particular attention is given to the pathogenesis of complications arising from ocular inflammation, prevention and treatment thereof. The chapters trace the course of a particular complication, its cause and importantly how to avoid it. Leading expert specialist explain a variety of occurring secondary conditions and their management. Inflammatory diseases causing these complications are briefly touched; the main focus will be the pathogenesis of the actual complication, prevention and treatment.This multi-disciplinary approach to complications of uveitis offers the reader, the tools to prevent or how to correctly manage these. Being of special interest to the uveitis specialist, this book also will be of value for all those with an interest in secondary conditions of ocular inflammations.
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 describemanagement 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.Explores aspects of secondary conditions aggravating uveitis Being of interest for uveitis specialists, cornea and glaucoma, specialists, and cataract and retina surgeons alike Presents versatile approaches on treatments of ocular inflammations
Autor*in
Francesco Pichi
Themen in »Complications in Uveitis«
Uveitic cataract Uveitic glaucoma Iris synechiae Ciliary processes atrophy retinal detachment secondary to infectious uveitis Secondary conditions