Ocular Tuberculosis

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86183-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Reihe: Essentials in Ophthalmology

A concise guide for ophthalmologists detailing tuberculosis, which can cause disease in multiple organs throughout the body, including the eye. Tuberculosis is an infection caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can cause disease in multiple organs throughout the body, including the eye. This can also affect any part of the eye (intraocular, superficial, or surrounding the eye), with or without systemic involvement and Ocular Tuberculosis is a text devoted to in-depth coverage of this topic.

Written and edited by international leaders in the field, discussing detailed and practical information on everything from clinical features, ocular imaging studies, and pathology, to investigations, treatment, and surgical management of this disease, Ocular Tuberculosis is a truly comprehensive text.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Atul

Sharma, Namrata

Chawla, Rohan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Augenheilkunde, Optometrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS1 Epidemiological Aspect of Ocular TuberculosisMay Zun Aung Win and Soon Phaik Chee2 Pathogenesis and Pathology of Ocular TuberculosisSeema Sen3 Imaging Studies for Ocular TuberculosisAtul Kumar, Rohan Chawla, and Ruchir Tewari4 Laboratory and Radiological Investigations in Diagnosis of Ocular TuberculosisRandeep Guleria and Vijay Noel Nongpiur5 Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon ? Release Assays in the Diagnosis of Ocular TuberculosisNicole Shu-Wen Chan and Soon-Phaik Chee6 Management of Ocular TuberculosisNitin Kumar, Eliza Anthony, Parthopratim Dutta Majumder, Ranju Kharel (Sitaula), and Jyotirmay Biswas7 Tubercular UveitisAtul Kumar, Rohan Chawla, Raghav Ravani, and Koushik Tripathy8 Tubercular Multifocal Serpiginoid ChoroiditisSahil Jain, Aniruddha Agarwal, Kanika Aggarwal, and Vishali Gupta9 Tubercular Retinitis and Retinal VasculitisSoumyava Basu and Taraprasad Das10 Tubercular Optic NeuropathyRohit Saxena and Divya Singh11 Ocular Tuberculosis in Immunocompromised Patients12 Conjunctival and Corneal TuberculosisNamrata Sharma and Neelima Aron13 Tubercular ScleritisMi Fang Helen, Rupesh Agrawal, Vishali Gupta, and Carlos Pavesio14 Orbital and Periorbital Tuberculosis Neelam Pushker and Amar Pujari

Über Autor(innen)

Atul Kumar, MD, FAMS, Chief, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Rohan Chawla, MD, FRCS(Glasg), Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India 
Namrata Sharma, MD, DNB, Professor of Ophthalmology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India