Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082470682X ISBN 13: 9780824706821

Publisher: CRC Press, 2002

Synopsis

Showcases exudative and nonexudative AMD treatment techniques using argon and diode lasers, submacular and macular translocation surgery, photodynamic therapy, radiation, feeder vessel treatment, thermotherapy, and antiangiogenesis drugs. Includes 160 color illustrations.

Showcases exudative and nonexudative AMD treatment techniques using argon and diode lasers, submacular and macular translocation surgery, photodynamic therapy, radiation, feeder vessel treatment, thermotherapy, and antiangiogenesis drugs.

Age-Related Macular Degeneration examines

newly developed treatments for CNV

immune mechanisms of AMD

histopathology of various stages of AMD

epidemiology and risk factors for AMD, CNV, and geographic atrophy

genetics of AMD

risk reduction modalities

ICG and OCT imaging

clinical trials and research protocols

quality of life assessments and the psychosocial aspects of AMD

potential applications of a retinal prosthesis

retinal pigment epithelium transplantation
With 1425 references, Age-Related Macular Degeneration will benefit clinical ophthalmologists, pathologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists; optometrists; cell and molecular biologists and biochemists; retinal specialists; AMD researchers; and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 082470682X
• ISBN 13: 9780824706821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Lim Jennifer I.