Overview
- First book to be devoted wholly to the diagnosis and treatment of vitreo-macular interface disease, an emerging and important hot topic
- Offers detailed disease description based on newer imaging techniques and reports on the latest treatment options
- Includes newly released data from clinical trials
- Written by world-renowned experts in the field
Part of the book series: Essentials in Ophthalmology (ESSENTIALS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This clinically oriented book is the first to be devoted wholly to the diagnosis and treatment of vitreo-macular interface disease, characterized by a combination of vitreo-macular adhesion (VMA) and vitreo-macular traction (VMT) that is implicated in a variety of disorders. World-renowned experts in the field discuss epidemiologic, anatomic, and physiologic aspects, document the findings obtained with newer imaging techniques, such as spectral domain optical coherence tomography, describe the treatment options, and report on the results of preclinical and clinical trials, including some previously unpublished findings. This book will prove invaluable for ophthalmologists as we advance toward a future in which treatments of diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy will likely require adjunctive therapy to tackle VMA/VMT concurrently.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Aniz Girach, MB.ChB., MRCOphth., MRCGP, studied at Leeds University Medical School in the United Kingdom before specializing in ophthalmology. After working in the Department of Ophthalmology, Peterborough Hospitals Trust, Cambridgeshire, Dr. Girach became Ophthalmology Consultant (Europe) for the Grand Vision Group. He then joined Eli Lilly & Co. as Senior Global Ophthalmologist and was later promoted to Global Medical Director of the Global Ophthalmology Team. He subsequently performed a similar role for Merck & Co., before becoming Vice President of International Clinical Development for Alcon Inc. and Global Head of Ophthalmology at ThromboGenics NV, Belgium. Dr. Girach has served on various scientific advisory boards and is a reviewer for several leading journals, whilst maintaining his clinical practice part-time. He is the author of many journal articles, book chapters, and other publications on Retinal diseases and other diverse issues in ophthalmology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diseases of the Vitreo-Macular Interface
Editors: Aniz Girach, Marc D. Smet
Series Title: Essentials in Ophthalmology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40034-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40033-9Published: 20 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52112-0Published: 01 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40034-6Published: 03 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1612-3212
Series E-ISSN: 2196-890X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 122
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology