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Contact Lens Complications - Nathan Efron

Contact Lens Complications

Nathan Efron (Autor)

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288 Seiten
2004 | 2nd Revised edition
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
978-0-7506-5534-7 (ISBN)
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Presents a practitioner-friendly account of how to identify, understand and manage ocular complications of contact lens wear. This book includes material that is organised by the way you see it in the clinic - by slit-lamp appearance and tissue pathologies. It is suitable for contact lens practitioners and students.
So popular was the first edition of this book that it had to be reprinted 3 months after it was published. In this eagerly awaited second edition, Nathan Efron presents an updated and expanded practitioner-friendly account of how to identify, understand and manage ocular complications of contact lens wear. With its succinct, easy-to-read style and vast array of superb full-colour schematic diagrams and clinical pictures, practitioners will find this book to be the perfect combination of chair-side manual and authoritative reference.Features of the second edition are: completely revised and updated, evidence-based approach; expanded and revised 'complications quick-find index' at the beginning of the book as an aid to making a rapid diagnosis; 11 new chapters (now 30 in total) covering a wide range of exciting new topics; 300 new references (now 900 in total) as the basis of a thorough evidenced-based approach; 150 superb new illustrations (now 425 in total) to assist instant recognition of clinical signs; 8 new grading scales (now 16 in total) that form the basis of the most comprehensive grading system available today; free grading morphs and self-help grading tutor computer programmes available on CD-ROM included, to help you hone your grading skills; and, tear film classification system.
All of the material is organised by the way you see it in the clinic - by slit-lamp appearance and tissue pathologies. As such, this book will be invaluable to all contact lens practitioners and students.

Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Department of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Brisbane, Australia

Preface Acknowledgements Authorship copyright table Contact lens complications quick-find index Part IEye examination Slit lamp biomicroscopy Part IIEyelids 2.Blinking abnormalities 3.Eyelid ptosis 4.Meibomian gland dysfunction 5.Eyelash disorders Part IIITear film 6.Dry eye 7.Mucin balls Part IVConjunctiva 8.Conjunctival staining 9.Conjunctival redness 10.Papillary conjunctivitis Part VLimbus 11.Limbal redness 12.Vascularized limbal keratitis 13.Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis Part VICorneal epithelium 14.Corneal staining 15.Epithelial microcysts 16.Epithelial oedema 17.Epithelial wrinkling Part VIICorneal stroma 18.Stromal oedema 19.Stromal thinning 20.Deep stromal opacities 21.Corneal neovascularisation 22.Sterile keratitis 23.Microbial keratitis 24.Corneal warpage Part VIIICorneal endothelium 25.Endothelial bedewing 26.Endothelial blebs 27.Endothelial cell loss 28.Endothelial polymegethism Part IXGrading systems 29.Grading scales 30.Grading morphs Appendix A Grading scales for contact lens complications Appendix B Guillon tear film classification system Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.5.2004
Zusatzinfo 374 ills.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 940 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Augenheilkunde
ISBN-10 0-7506-5534-8 / 0750655348
ISBN-13 978-0-7506-5534-7 / 9780750655347
Zustand Neuware
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