Age-related macular degeneration
Subtitle: a comprehensive textbook
By: [edited by] D. Virgil Alfaro III ... [et al.].
Contributors: Alfaro, D. Virgil.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Retinal degeneration -- Age factors; Macular Degeneration -- diagnosis; Choroidal Neovascularization; Macular Degeneration -- complications; Macular Degeneration -- therapy
Description: Presents promising new developments in age-related macular degeneration, with emphasis on the most significant advances in the past five years. Content addresses all aspects of management, including anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology; imaging of the macula in age-related macular degeneration; prevention measures and treatment; treatment; and future directions. Abundantly illustrated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Normal anatomy of the macula / J. Fernando Arevalo, Carlos F. Fernandez, Aristides J. Mendoza; title: Animal disease models / Melanie Lyn Hom and Ron Adelman; title: Etiology of late-age related macular disease / Richard F. Spaide; title: Histopathology of age-related macular degeneration / Ana Pesce ... [et al.]; title: Classification of ARMD : dry ARMD and wet ARMD / Warren Thompsom; title: Polypoidal-choroidal vasculo therapy / Christina M. Klais, Antonio P. Ciardella, and Lawrence Yannuzzi; title: Retinal angiomatous proliferation / Christina M. Klais ... [et al.]; title: Differential diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration / William F. Mieler; title: Fluorescein angiography (FA) / J. Michael Jumper ... [et al.]; title: Indocyanine green angiography (ICG) / Lindsay M. Smithen ... [et al.]; title: The use of optical coherence tomography in the diagnosis and assessment of AMD / Robin Singh ... [et al.]; title: OCT ophthalmoscope / Richard B. Rosen ... [et al.]; title: New imaging modalities / Dirk-Uwe Bartsch, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, and William R. Freeman; title: Antioxidants, free radicals and the retina / Siobhan E. Moriarty-Craige and Paul Sternberg Jr.; title: Laser photocoagulation of eyes with soft drusen / Marta S. Figueroa and Thomas R. Friberg; title: Choroidal neovascularization : treatment guidelines for age-related macular degeneration based upon results from the macular photocoagulation study and the treatment of age-related macular degeneration with photodynamic therapy study / James M. Weisz, and Stephen R. O'Connell; title: Photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization and age-related macular degeneration / Lluís Arias Barquet ... [et al.]; title: Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) for the treatment of choroidal neovascularization associated with age related macular degeneration / Peter Liggett, Alejandro J. Lavaque, and Elias Reichel; title: Choroidal feeder vessel photocoagulation therapy / Bert Glaser and T. Mark Johnson; title: Pneumatic displacement of submacular hemorrhage / Alejandro José Lavaque, Nauman Alam. Chaundry, Peter Eric Liggett; title: Submacular surgery and the submacular surgery trial / Nancy M. Holekamp and Matthew A. Thomas; title: Limited macular translocation / Motohiro Kamei and Yasuo Tano; title: Macugen (pegaptanib sodium injection) / Eugene Ng, Emmett T. Cunningham, and David R. Guyer; title: Ranizumab for wet age-related macular degeneration (Lucentis TM, Genetech, Inc.) / D. Virgil Alfaro III ... [et al.]; title: Intravitreal triamcinolone for choroidal neovascularization / D. Virgil Alfaro ... [et al.]; title: Introduction to gene therapy and related techniques for retinal disorders and age-related macular degeneration / Alejandro J. Lavaque ... [et al.]; title: Human retinal and RPE transplantation techniques / Suzanne Binder and Henry J. Kaplan; title: Artificial vision, visual prostheses, and retinal implants / Richard M. Awdeh ... [et al.]; title: Neuroprotection in macular degeneration / Joyce Tombran-Tink and Colin Barnstable; title: Pigment epithelium endoscopic laser surgery : PEELS / Franz H.J. Koch and Hugo Quiroz-Mercado.