cover image - Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323480147
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 06-30-2021
Page Count: 430
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $199.99

Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis, 5th Edition

by Scott M. Whitcup, MD and H. Nida Sen

Hardcover

cover image - Whitcup and Nussenblatt's Uveitis, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323480147
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 06-30-2021
Page Count: 430
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $199.99
    • 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.
  • PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS

    1. Elements of the Immune System and Concepts of Intraocular
      Inflammatory Disease Pathogenesis                                                                                                                                       1
    2. PART 2: DIAGNOSIS

    3. Medical History in the Patient with Uveitis
    4. Examination of the Patient with Uveitis
    5. Development of a Differential Diagnosis
    6. Diagnostic Testing and Imaging
    7. Optical Coherence Tomography in Uveitis
    8. Evidence-Based Medicine in Uveitis
    9. PART 3:MEDICAL THERAPY AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION

    10. Approaches to Medical Therapy
    11. Role of Surgery in the Patient with Uveitis
    12. PART 4: INFECTIOUS UVEITIC CONDITIONS

    13. Bacterial and Fungal Diseases
    14. Spirochetal Diseases
    15. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    16. Acute Retinal Necrosis and Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis
    17. Other Viral Diseases
    18. Ocular Toxoplasmosis
    19. Ocular Histoplasmosis
    20. Ocular toxacariasis
    21. Onchocerciasis and Other Parasitic Diseases
    22. Postsurgical Uveitis
    23. PART 5:NON INFECTIOUS UVEITIC CONDITIONS

    24. Anterior Uveitis
    25. Scleritis
    26. Intermediate Uveitis
    27. Sarcoidosis
    28. Sympathetic Ophthalmia
    29. Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada Syndrome
    30. Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
    31. Behçet’s Disease
    32. Retinal Vasculitis
    33. Serpiginous Choroidopathy
    34. White-Dot Syndromes
    35. Masquerade Syndromes
  • Scott M. Whitcup, MD, 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. and H. Nida Sen