Uveitis : fundamentals and clinical practice /
Robert B. Nussenblatt, Scott M. Whitcup.
- 4th ed.
- xiii, 433 páginas : ilustraciones (principalmente a color) ; 29 cm.
´Expert consult´--Cover. Previous ed.: 2004.
Incluye bibliografía.
Fundamentals -- Elements of the immune system and concepts of intraocular inflammatory disease pathogenesis -- Diagnosis -- Medical history in the patient with uveitis -- Examination of the patient with uveitis -- Development of a differential diagnosis -- Diagnostic testing -- Evidence-based medicine in uveitis -- Medical therapy and surgical intervention -- Philosophy, goals, and approaches to medical therapy -- Role of surgery in the patient with uveitis -- Infectious uveitic conditions -- Bacterial and fungal diseases -- Spirochetal diseases -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Acute renal necrosis and progressive outer retinal necrosis -- Other viral diseases -- Ocular toxoplasmosis -- Ocular histoplasmosis -- Toxocara canis -- Onchocerciasis and other parasitic diseases -- Postsurgical uveitis -- Uveitic conditions not caused by active infection -- Anterior uveitis -- Scleritis -- Intermediate uveitis -- Sarcoidosis -- Sympathetic ophthalmia -- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome -- Birdshot retinochoroidopathy -- Behcet´s disease -- Retinal vasculitis -- Serpiginous choroidopathy -- White-dot syndromes -- Masquerade syndromes -- Other ocular diseases and the immune response: who would have thought?