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, MD, MHSc

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

    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

    PART 3: MEDICAL THERAPY AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION
    8. Approaches to Medical Therapy
    9. Role of Surgery in the Patient with Uveitis

    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. Onchocerciasis and Other Parasitic Diseases
    19. Postsurgical Uveitis

    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

  • 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, USA and H. Nida Sen, MD, MHSc, 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, USA
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