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Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis

Fundamentals and Clinical Practice

  • 5th Edition - March 31, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Scott M. Whitcup, H. Nida Sen
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • 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.

Readership

Ophthalmologists, uveitis sub-specialists and fellows

Table of contents

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS

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

    2. 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

    8. 　

    PART 3:

     MEDICAL THERAPY AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION

  8. Approaches to Medical Therapy

  9. Role of Surgery in the Patient with Uveitis

    10. 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.

  18. Onchocerciasis and Other Parasitic Diseases

  19. Postsurgical Uveitis

    20. 　

    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

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 30, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

SW

Scott M. Whitcup

Affiliations and expertise
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.

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

Affiliations and expertise
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

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