Macular Disorders

This atlas presents chapters on common and rare macular diseases including variants of age-related macular degeneration (dry, neovascular, polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy), cystoid macular edema, macular telangiectasia, central serous retinopathy and pachychoroid disease, photic retinopathy, presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome, myopic degeneration, angioid streaks, and a recently described entity: perifoveal exudative vascular anomalous complex. It provides a wealth of representative images, using various modalities to help the reader recognize the respective conditions. Importantly, it also includes images acquired using techniques more recently adopted in clinical practice such as autofluoresence, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and OCT angiography. The concise text reviews the basic concepts of etiology, diagnosis, and management in a highly accessible format. In contributions prepared by internationally respected experts, the atlas provides a cutting-edge analysis of each condition, as well as excellent summaries of recent work in the field.

Macular Disorders is one of nine volumes in the series Retina Atlas. The series offers a global perspective on vitreoretinal diseases, covering imaging basics, retinal vascular disease, ocular inflammatory disease, retinal degeneration, surgical retina, macular disorders, ocular oncology, pediatric retina and trauma. In nine volumes and over 100 chapters, Retina Atlas offers comprehensive and validated information on retinal disorders.

Dr. Ivana K. Kim, MD is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and serves as Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Age-Related Macular Degeneration Center of Excellence, as well as Co-Director of the Ocular Melanoma Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her ophthalmology residency and vitreoretinal fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Her clinical practice includes surgical and medical retina, with a focus on age-related macular degeneration and uveal melanoma. She is actively involved in clinical trials for retinal disease as well as translational research in AMD and ocular melanoma. She has published extensively, and is a member of many prestigious societies including the American Ophthalmological Society, the Macula Society, the Retina Society, and the Club Jules Gonin.