Corneal Disease: Recent Developments in Diagnosis and Therapy

✍ Scribed by Darlene Miller DHSc., Dalia Girgis M.D., Carol Karp M.D. (auth.), Thomas Reinhard, Frank Larkin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 134
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, written by leading clinicians and scientists, focuses on recent clinically relevant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of corneal disorders. After an opening chapter considering the latest knowledge on the heredity of keratoconus, important advances in corneal imaging are discussed, in particular the use of optical coherence tomography and in vivo confocal microscopy for evaluation of the normal and the diseased cornea. Antiangiogenic treatment options are then reviewed, and new aspects in the diagnosis and therapy of mycobacterial keratitis explained. Further chapters address the storage of donor cornea for penetrating and lamellar keratoplasty and the keratoplasty in infants. The book closes by discussing new developments in antibacterial chemotherapy for bacterial keratitis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
New Aspects in the Diagnosis and Therapy of Mycobacterial Keratitis....Pages 1-18
New Developments in Antibacterial Chemotherapy for Bacterial Keratitis....Pages 19-35
Heredity of Keratoconus....Pages 37-52
Advance in Corneal Imaging....Pages 53-70
Antiangiogenic Treatment Options in the Cornea....Pages 71-90
Storage of Donor Cornea for Penetrating and Lamellar Transplantation....Pages 91-106
Infant Keratoplasty....Pages 107-121
Back Matter....Pages 123-126

✦ Subjects

Ophthalmology