Uveitis : fundamentals and clinical practice / Robert B. Nussenblatt, Scott M. Whitcup.

´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?