Diabetic retinopathy for the comprehensive ophthalmologist
By: Jonathan D. Walker ; editor, Lauren Fath
Contributors: Fath, Lauren, editor
Publisher: Deluma Medical Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: und
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780982147207
Subjects: Diabetic Retinopathy; Therapy; Macular Edema; Retina; Surgery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tiny bit of statistics and a big pep talk; title: Basic science; title: Know your weapons: lasers and their ilk; title: Contact lenses and the wrangling thereof; title: Diabetic macular edema: the basics; title: Trust me, I'm a doctor: part one: the informed consent for treating diabetic macular edema; title: Actually doing a laser for macular edema; title: Chapter that is really about actually doing a laser for diabetic macular edema; title: Lasers; title: Now what? Post-laser management of macular edema; title: Intravitreal therapy and how it fits into your armamentarium... or not; title: Proliferative diabetic retinopathy and other things that go bump in the night; title: Trust me, I'm a doctor: part two: the informed consent for panretinal photocoagulation (PRP); title: Actually doing panretinal photocoagulation; title: Doc, at least it's not as bad as having a baby: pain control for PRPs; title: You should not do magic you do not understand: complications of laser treatment; title: Now what? Following a PRP and all those little hemorrhages; title: When to bail out, give up, drop off the key, and refer for vitrectomy; title: Most useful chapter in the book (but you wouldn't read it if it had an informative title); title: Big bucks diabetic papillopathy; title: Proliferating while proliferating: diabetic retinopathy; title: During pregnancy; title: Cataract surgery & diabetic retinopathy; title: Thinning of the blood; title: Differential diagnosis; title: Just how often do you have to drag them back, anyway?