Editors:
- Chapters contributed by world’s eminent doctors in ocular inflammation
- Includes clinical photographs of ocular inflammatory and infectious disease with newer imaging techniques
- Provides updates in clinical features, diagnosis, and management of ocular inflammatory disease
- Includes numerous invaluable images of rare but clinically important diseases
Part of the book series: Retina Atlas (RA)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This atlas covers most ocular inflammatory and infectious diseases of importance with clinical significance. It includes chapters on non-infectious diseases and chapters on infectious diseases. For each chapter, essential information regarding the clinical features, diagnosis, and management is described in the text based on the up-to-date knowledge, and more than 240 carefully selected photographs are provided. World-famous experts in this field have included as many as valuable photographs of patients as possible. New imaging tests of ultra-wide field retinal images and high-resolution optical coherence tomography are included in addition to conventional fundus photos and fluorescein angiographs. Especially, chapters on infectious diseases provide invaluable photos of rare but clinically important diseases.
Designed to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of ocular inflammation and infection, this book is meant for the retina specialist, researchers of ocular inflammation, general ophthalmologist, resident and retina fellow.
Inflammatory and Infectious Ocular Disorders atlas is one of the nine volumes of the series Retina Atlas. This series provides global perspective on vitreoretinal diseases, covering imaging basics, retinal vascular disease, macular disorders, ocular inflammatory and infectious disorders, retinal degeneration, surgical retina, ocular oncology, pediatric retina and trauma. This comprehensive atlas is spread over 9 volumes and about 100 chapters, covering validated and comprehensive information on retinal disorders.Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Hyeong Gon Yu
About the editor
Dr. Yu is a Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine and is in charge of the retina and uveitis service at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), where he has set up two special clinics: the Uveitis Clinic and the Hereditary Retinal Disease clinic. He has been the Chair of the Department of Preclinical Research at the SNUH Bioresearch Institute since 2016, and the founding President of the Korean Association of Retinal Degeneration since 2014. He is a member of the ISBD (International society of Behcet disease) council and a board member of the Korean Retina Society and Korean Uveitis Society. He is also a member of IUSG (International Uveitis Society Group) and Macula Society. He was the first recipient of the Korean Retina Society Academy Award and received the Distinguised Service Award from the APAO (Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology) in 2016 and 2017.
Further, he has participated in numerous clinical trials as a principal or co-investigator. His interests include clinical and translational research on ocular inflammatory diseases as well as retinal degeneration. He has published over 200 scientific papers in international journals, was a chief editor for several books, including Asian Retina (Elsevier), Ophthalmic Laser Treatment, Inherited Retinal Diseases, and Uveitis (Korean Elsevier) and contributed chapters to various textbooks, such as Retina (Mosby) and Advances in Vision Research - Volume I and II (Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inflammatory and Infectious Ocular Disorders
Editors: Hyeong Gon Yu
Series Title: Retina Atlas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8546-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8545-2Published: 14 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8548-3Published: 14 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8546-9Published: 27 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-5741
Series E-ISSN: 2662-575X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 192 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology