Uveitis and Immunological Disorders

• Main Authors: Pleyer, Uwe (Author), Forrester, John V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Essentials in Ophthalmology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This third volume of "Uveitis and Immunological Disorders" in Essentials in Ophthalmology provides up-to-date, relevant information for the reader. Our knowledge and understanding of immune mechanisms has increased exponentially over the past few years and has expanded to disorders such as...

Table of Contents:

• Histocompatibility Matching in Penetrating Keratoplasty
• Acute A nterior Uveitis and HLA-B27: 2 What's New?
• What Can the Aqueous Humour Tell Us About Uveitis?
• Is Diabetic Retinopathy an Inflammatory Disease? Inflammation as a Stimulus for Vascular Leakage and Proliferati on
• Steroid Sensitivity in Uveitis
• Multiple Sclerosis and Uveitis
• Inflammation in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: What is the Evidence?
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Immunological Factors in the Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Consequences
• Patterns of Retinal Vascular Involvement in the Diagnosis of Retinal Vasculitis
• Masquerade Syndromes.