Genetic Diseases of the Eye

ISBN-13: 9780195326147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 994 str.

Elias I Traboulsi

Opis

This highly anticipated new edition brings together an expert group of authors to provide a comprehensive, systematic resource on genetic diseases of the eye. This richly illustrated title covers areas such as: malformations; refractive errors, the cornea, glaucoma and cataracts; retina and the optic nerve; eye movement disorders, and systemic disease of the eye. The new edition remains grounded in a sound clinical approach to the patient with a genetic disease that affects the eye.

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Recenzje

The new edition of Genetic Diseases of the Eye is an essential reference book for ophthalmologists and clinical geneticists who have an interest in inherited eye disorders. The book covers all the major genetic disorders of the eye, including developmental eye anomalies and those eye abnormalities that occur as part of multisystem disorders. Each of the chapters is written by leading experts in the field which ensures that each subject is covered in depth and the information is completely up to date. In addition there is sound practical advice about diagnosis and clinical management. It is an outstanding book that should take pride of place on the bookshelf of all clinicians working with patients with genetic eye disease.

O autorze

Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology and the Director of the Center for Genetic Eye Diseases at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. He is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case University and Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also serves as Vice-Chairman for Education at the Cole Eye Institute and Chairman of Graduate Medical Education at the Cleveland Clinic. He is Past President of The International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and Retinoblastoma and its current executive vice-president. He has been the Editor-In-Chief of Ophthalmic Genetics sine 1992. He has authored more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters.