Corneal Disease

Written by leading clinicians and scientists, this book provides up-to-date guidance in the precise use of the latest techniques in corneal imaging, as well as evaluating treatment options and covering the management of corneal disease in infants.

Provides guidance on the precise use of new techniques of corneal imaging

Evaluates antiangiogenic treatment options

Discusses the management of corneal disease in infants

Written by renowned clinicians and scientists

Provides guidance on the precise use of new techniques of corneal imaging Evaluates antiangiogenic treatment options Discusses the management of corneal disease in infants Written by renowned clinicians and scientists? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur

Thomas Reinhard is expert in the diagnosis and therapy of corneal diseases and especially in corneal surgery, including all techniques of lamellar and penetrating keratoplasty. To date he has published about 300 scientific papers. He has been chairman of the University Eye Hospital Freiburg, Germany since 2003. He is board member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) and was its President in 2010-2011.

Frank Larkin has subspecialised in corneal and external eye diseases since his appointment as a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London in 1997. With a special interest in corneal transplantation, his published work covers a wide range of both clinical and experimental research in this field. He was director of the Cornea and External Diseases Service at Moorfields from 2001 to 2008 and is currently Deputy Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for translational research at Moorfields and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Dr. Larkin is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Ophthalmology and has been a board member of EuCornea since 2009.

Contenu

New aspects in diagnosis and therapy of mycobacterial keratitis.- New developments in antibacterial chemotherapy for corneal Infection.- Heredity of keratoconus.- Advances in corneal imaging.- An update on anti-angiogenesis in the cornea.- Storage of penetrating and lamellar grafts.- Keratoplasty in infants.