Albert and Jakobiec's Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology [E-Book]

Fundamentals of Genetics -- Molecular Mechanisms of Inherited Disease -- Genetic Testing -- Principles of Genetic Counseling -- Immunology - An Overview -- A Cast of Thousands: The Cells of the Immune System -- T-Lymphocyte Responses -- B-Lymphocyte Responses -- Immune-Mediated Tissue Injury -- Regulation of Immune Responses -- Ocular Bacteriology -- Chlamydial Disease -- The Spirochetes -- Parasitic and Rickettsial Ocular Infections -- Fungal Infections of the Eye -- Ocular Virology -- Ocular Pharmacokinetics -- Anesthetics -- Antibacterials -- Antivirals -- Antifungal Agents -- Antiparasitics -- Corticosteroids in Ophthalmic Practice -- Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs -- Antihistamines and Mast Cell Stabilizers in Allergic Ocular Disease -- Tear Film and Blink Dynamics -- Tear Substitutes -- Viscoelastics -- Pharmacologic Agents with Osmotic Effects -- Pharmacologic Treatment of Immune Disorders and Specifically of Immune Ocular Inflammatory Disease -- Angiogenic Factors and Inhibitors -- Principles of Toxicology of the Eye -- Toxicology of Ophthalmic Agents by Class -- Epidemiology and Clinical Research -- Epidemiology of Age-Related Cataract -- Epidemiology of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma -- Epidemiology of Diabetic Retinopathy -- Epidemiology of Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- Anatomy and Cell Biology of the Cornea, Superficial Limbus, and Conjunctiva -- Corneal Form and Function: Clinical Perspective -- Ocular Surface Epithelial Stem Cells and Corneal Wound Healing Response to Injury and Infection -- Corneal Examination, Specular and Confocal Microscopy, UBM, OCT -- Corneal Dysgeneses, Dystrophies, and Degenerations -- Keratoconus and Corneal Noninflammatory Ectasias -- Corneal Manifestations of Metabolic Disease -- Immunologic Disorders of the Conjunctiva, Cornea, and Sclera -- Allergic and Toxic Reactions: The Immune Response -- 48: Lid Inflammations -- Viral Disease of the Cornea and External Eye -- Bacterial, Chlamydial, and Mycobacterial Infections -- Fungal Keratitis -- Acanthamoeba Keratitis -- Interstitial Keratitis -- Recurrent Corneal Epithelial Erosion -- Persistent Epithelial Defects -- Chemical Injuries of the Eye -- Wetting of the Ocular Surface and Dry-Eye Disorders -- Tumors of the Cornea and Conjunctiva -- Lamellar Keratoplasty -- Penetrating Keratoplasty -- Endothelial Keratoplasty -- Complications of Corneal Transplantation and Their Management -- Excimer Laser Phototherapeutic Keratectomy -- Conjunctival Surgery -- Ocular Surface Transplantation -- Amniotic Membrane Surgery -- Keratoprosthesis -- History, Development, and Classification of Refractive Surgical Procedures -- Optical Principles for Refractive Surgery -- Corneal Topography and Wave Front Analysis -- Diagnosis and Management of Corneal Irregular Astigmatism -- Biomechanics and Wound Healing in Refractive Surgery -- Excimer Laser Instrumentation -- Mechanical and Laser Microkeratomes -- LASIK Patient Evaluation and Selection -- Photorefractive Keratectomy for Myopia, Hyperopia, and Astigmatism -- Decentration in Keratorefractive Procedures -- LASEK and Epi-LASIK -- LASIK for Myopia, Hyperopia, and Astigmatism -- Wavefront-Guided Excimer Laser Surgery -- Intraoperative Complications of LASIK -- Incisional Surgery: Radial and Astigmatic Keratotomy -- Intrastromal Corneal Rings for Myopia, Keratoconus, and Corneal Ectasia -- Conductive Keratoplasty for the Treatment of Hyperopia and Presbyopia -- Scleral Procedure for Presbyopia -- Refractive Surgery with Phakic IOLs -- Clear Lens Extraction -- Accommodative and Pseudoaccommodative Intraocular Lenses -- Future Developments with Conductive Keratoplasty -- Introduction to Uveitis -- Immunosuppression -- Anterior Uveitis -- Ocular Manifestations of Sarcoidosis -- Intermediate Uveitis -- Infectious Causes of Posterior Uveitis -- Birdshot Chorioretinopathy -- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease (Uveomeningitic Syndrome) -- Ocular Histoplasmosis -- Sympathetic Ophthalmia -- Fuchs' Heterochromic Iridocyclitis -- Serpiginous Choroiditis -- Intraocular Lymphoproliferations Simulating Uveitis -- Choroidal Effusions and Detachments -- Biology of the Lens: Lens Transparency as a Function of Embryology, Anatomy, and Physiology -- Lens Proteins and Their Molecular Biology -- Biophysics and Age Changes of the Crystalline Lens -- Mechanism of Cataract Formation -- Subjective Classification and Objective Quantitation of Human Cataract -- History of Cataract Surgery -- Historical Development of Modern Intraocular Lens Surgery -- Preoperative Preparation of Patients for Cataract and Lens Implant Surgery -- Anesthesia for Cataract Surgery -- Extracapsular Cataract Extraction -- Phacoemulsification - Theory and Practice -- Fluidics -- Intraocular Lens Implantation -- Pediatric Cataract Surgery -- Combined Procedures -- Secondary Intraocular Lens Implantation -- Astigmatism and Cataract Surgery -- Complications of IOL Surgery -- Functional Anatomy of the Neural Retina -- Visual Acuity, Adaptation, and Color Vision -- Objective Assessment of Retinal Function -- M�ller Cells and the Retinal Pigment Epithelium -- Retinal and Choroidal Circulations -- Examination of the Retina: Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Biomicroscopy -- Principles of Fluorescein Angiography -- Indocyanine Green Videoangiography -- Optical Coherence Tomography -- Retinal Arterial Occlusions -- Retinal Venous Occlusive Disease -- Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy -- Diabetic Macular Edema -- Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy.

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