Practical Manual of Intraocular Inflammation provides a clear and practical approach to the treatment and analysis of posterior segment intraocular inflammatory conditions.

Practical Manual of Intraocular Inflammation includes:

• full coverage of diagnosis,clinical assessment, and management of symptoms
• descriptions of external inflammatory conditions, as well as uveitis
• full-color algorithms, scientific charts, schematic illustrations, and clinical photographs

Contents

What Are We Dealing With?

• Uveitis-Posterior Segment Intraocular Inflammation (PSII)
• What Are We Dealing With?
• Regional Differences
• Immunopathology of Noninfectious PSII
• Practical Classification for Management

Clinical Assessment of Patients with Posterior Segment Intraocular Inflammation

• General Features and Clinical Evaluation of Intraocular Inflammation in the Clinic
• Clinical Evaluation-Symptoms and Signs
• Determining Infectious vs. Noninfectious PSII
• Determining Sight-Threatening Disease
• Assessing Coexisting Systemic Disease in PSII
• Utilizing Ocular Imaging in the Management of Noninfectious PSII
• Fluorescein Angiography
• Indocyanine Green Angiography
• Utilizing Visual Function Tests in the Management of Noninfectious PSII

Practical Evaluation of the Patient in the Clinic

• Differential Diagnosis Based on Predominant Ocular Feature
• Descriptions and Workup for Specific Disease Entities

Instituting and Monitoring Therapy for Sight-Threatening Uveitis

• The Decision to Treat Sight Threatening Ocular Inflammation (STOI)
• Aims of Treatment
• Investigation Prior to Treatment
• Monitoring Response to Treatment/Assessing Severtiy
• Monitoring the Emergence of Side Effects

Immunomodulatory Therapy

• What is Immunomodulatory Therapy?
• Corticosteroids
• Immunosuppressive Agents
• Biologic Agents
• Locally Administered Corticosteroids
• Perioperative Medical Management

Research Questions

• The Clinical Problem
• Understanding Pathogenesis - The Use of Animal Models
• Novel Therapies
• Bedside to Bench to Bench to Bedside

Index

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