cover image - Contact Lens Complications, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780702042690
Copyright: 2012
Publication Date: 06-15-2012
Page Count: 350
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $159.00

Contact Lens Complications, 3rd Edition

by Nathan Efron, BScOptom PhD (Melbourne), DSc (Manchester), FAAO (Dip CCLRT), FIACLE, FCCLSA, FBCLA, FACO

Hardcover

cover image - Contact Lens Complications, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780702042690
Copyright: 2012
Publication Date: 06-15-2012
Page Count: 350
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $159.00
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    • Evaluate and manage patients efficiently with an organization that parallels your clinical decision making, arranging complications logically by tissue pathologies.
    • Turn to the lavish illustrations and full-color schematic diagrams for a quick visual understanding of the causes and remedies for contact lens complications.
    • Stay up to date with the latest advances and concepts in contact-lens-related ocular pathology, including findings from the Dry Eye Workshop (DEWS), the International Workshop on Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, a new approach to corneal inflammatory events and microbial keratitis, and new instrumentation and techniques for anterior eye examination.
    • Find information quickly with the updated "Complications Quick-Find Index" at the beginning of the book - both a valuable aid to formulating a rapid diagnosis and treatment plan, and a useful study tool for examinations.
    • Consult the most comprehensive and widely-used grading system available, as well as 350 new references that reflect an evidence-based approach, and dozens of superb new illustrations that help you instantly recognize clinical signs.
    • Access the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com, as well as a downloadable image gallery, redesigned grading morphs, and upgraded self-help grading tutor programs that help you assess condition severity.
  • Part I EXAMINATION AND GRADING

    Chapter 1 Anterior eye examination

    Chapter 2 Grading scales

    Chapter 3 Grading morphs

    Part II EYELIDS

    Chapter 4 Blinking abnormalities

    Chapter 5 Eyelid ptosis

    Chapter 6 Meibomian gland dysfunction

    Chapter 7 Eyelash disorders

    Part III TEAR FILM

    Chapter 8 Dry eye

    Chapter 9 Mucin balls

    Part IV CONJUNCTIVA

    Chapter 10 Conjunctival staining

    Chapter 11 Conjunctival redness

    Chapter 12 Papillary conjunctivitis

    Part V LIMBUS

    Chapter 13 Limbal redness

    Chapter 14 Vascularised limbal keratitis

    Chapter 15 Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis

    Part VI CORNEAL EPITHELIUM

    Chapter 16 Corneal staining

    Chapter 17 Epithelial microcysts

    Chapter 18 Epithelial oedema

    Chapter 19 Epithelial wrinkling

    Part VII CORNEAL STROMA

    Chapter 20 Stromal oedema

    Chapter 21 Stromal thinning

    Chapter 22 Deep stromal opacities

    Chapter 23 Corneal neovascularisation

    Chapter 24 Corneal infiltrative events

    Chapter 25 Microbial keratitis

    Chapter 26 Corneal warpage

    Part VIII CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM

    Chapter 27 Endothelial bedewing

    Chapter 28 Endothelial blebs

    Chapter 29 Endothelial cell redistribution

    Chapter 30 Endothelial polymegethism

    Appendix A Grading scales for contact lens complications system

    Appendix B Guillon tear film classification

    Index

  • Nathan Efron, BScOptom PhD (Melbourne), DSc (Manchester), FAAO (Dip CCLRT), FIACLE, FCCLSA, FBCLA, FACO, Research Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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