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Pediatric Retina : Medical and Surgical Approaches.
This is the first text to address pediatric retinal diseases. The book's broad scope spans the developmental and genetic aspects of pediatric retinal diseases; patient assessment and diagnosis, and medical management; surgical management; and rehabilitation. Abundant color illustrations enhance...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; preface; section i: clinical assessment and management of medical retinal diseases in infants and children; embryology of the posterior segment and developmental disorders; visual assessment of the infant and child: assessment of vision in infants and children withvision loss; examination of pediatric retinal function; genetic counseling for retinal diseases; posterior segment imaging in infants and children; albinism, lysosomal storage diseases, and other metabolic conditions; generalized retinal and choroidal dystrophies; stargardt disease/fundus flavimaculatus.
- Mitochondrial and peroxisomal disordershereditary retinitis pigmentosa; usher disease; methods to restore vision a. visual prostheses; gene therapy for pediatric retinal diseases; retinoblastoma; other tumors in infants and children; uveitis affecting infants and children: infectious causes; uveitis affecting infants and children: noninfectious causes; worldwide causes of childhood blindness; section ii: clinical assessment and management of retinal diseases requiring surgery in infants and children; general surgical considerations in infants and children.
- Preoperative management of the infant and childgeneral anesthesia in premature infants; surgical approaches to infant and childhood retinal diseases: noninvasive methods; surgical approaches to infant and childhood retinal diseases: invasive methods; pediatric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment; congenital x-linked retinoschisis; retinopathy of prematurity: current understanding based on clinical trials and animal models; retinopathy of prematurity: evolution of stages 4 and 5 rop and management; familial exudative vitreoretinopathy; coats' disease.
- Persistent fetal vasculature syndrome (persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous)surgical approaches to uveitis; trauma; section iii: visual rehabilitation of infants and children with low vision; visual rehabilitation of the infant and child; appendices; appendix a: localized and identified genes associated with retinal disorders as categorized to inheritance pattern; appendix b: hemorrhages; appendix c: macular abnormalities; appendix d: pigmentary abnormalities; appendix e: posterior segment masses; appendix f: fundus flecks and white spot syndromes; appendix g: abnormal vascular patterns.
- Appendix h: retinal detachment and retinoschisisappendix i
- optic nerve abnormalities; index.