Common Eye Diseases and their Management

✍ Scribed by Nicholas R. Galloway MBCHB, BA, FRCS, MD, FRCOphth, Winfried M. K. Amoaku MBCHB, FRCS, FRCOphth, PhD, Peter H. Galloway MBBS, FRCOphth, Andrew C. Browning BSc, FRCOphth (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There have been significant advances in the diagnosis and management of eye disease since the last edition of Common Eye Diseases and their Management was published. The specialty has developed more subspecialties, and the referring doctor has to have a good knowledge of these in order to make appropriate referrals. An increased emphasis on screening has made it necessary for the primary care doctor to have a basic knowledge of eye diseases. This applies particularly to glaucoma and diabetic eye disease. The management of eye conditions in the elderly is also an important and increasing primary care problem.

It has been the intention to keep explanations as simple and non-technical as possible without losing scientific accuracy and more detailed accounts should be sought in the larger textbooks.

The book is essential for medical students and general practitioners as well as optometrists and nurses. It addresses problems and deals with the science of Ophthalmology at a basic level.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Scope of Ophthalmology....Pages 3-5
Basic Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye....Pages 7-15
Examination of the Eye....Pages 17-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Long Sight, Short Sight....Pages 29-31
Common Diseases of the Eyelids....Pages 33-44
Common Diseases of the Conjunctiva and Cornea....Pages 45-60
The Red Eye....Pages 61-65
Failing Vision....Pages 67-70
Headache....Pages 71-75
Contact Lenses....Pages 77-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Cataract....Pages 81-90
Glaucoma....Pages 91-102
Retinal Detachment....Pages 103-110
Squint....Pages 111-119
Tumours of the Eye and Adnexae....Pages 121-128
Ocular Trauma....Pages 129-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Testing Visual Acuity....Pages 137-140
The Inflamed Eye....Pages 141-148
The Ageing Eye....Pages 149-155
The Child’s Eye....Pages 157-163
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Systemic Disease and the Eye....Pages 165-178
Neuro-ophthalmology....Pages 179-188
Genetics and the Eye....Pages 189-193
Drugs and the Eye....Pages 195-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Blindness....Pages 203-206

✦ Subjects

Ophthalmology;General Practice / Family Medicine;Pathology