Complications in Uveitis

This book will focus for the first time on how to avoid complications of uveitis, or how to deal with them either surgically or medically. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that all other books available on the subject of uveitis concentrate on pathogenesis, natural course, diagnosis and treatment of the uveitic entity itself, barely touching complications arising from inflammation.

This book will be divided in chapters, each of them concentrating on a particular portion of the eye, from front to back, and how it can get affected by complications from inflammation. Inflammatory diseases causing these complications will be just superficially touched, the main focus will be the pathogenesis of the actual complication, prevention and treatment. Every chapter will be introduced by a section by a uveitis specialist on how inflammation can cause that particular complication, and how we can avoid it. Then a specialist in the sector (cornea surgeon, glaucoma surgeon, etc) will describemanagement of the complication. This multi-disciplinary approach to complications of uveitis will provide to the readers the tools to prevent them, or to correctly manage the. It will be a book mainly directed to uveitis specialist but that could also interest other specialists.

CORNEA COMPLICATIONS FROM UVEITIS. - Band keratopathy. - Limbal stem cells deficiency. - Herpetic corneal opacities. - IRIS COMPLICATIONS FROM UVEITIS. - Synechiae. - Topical medical management of iris synechiae. - Intrasurgical management of iris synechiae. - LENS COMPLICATIONS FROM UVEITIS. - Pathogenesis of cataract in uveitis patients. - Uveitis etiologies associated with cataract development. - Inflammation control before planning cataract surgery. - Preoperative management. - Surgical treatment. - IOL vs non IOL. - Secondary IOLs. - Postoperative management. - Management of postoperative complications. - Fibrin reaction. - CILIARY PROCESSES COMPLICATIONS FROM UVEITIS. - UBM for ciliary processes evaluation Ciliary body cysts. - Ciliary processes atrophy. - Hypotony in uveitis. - GLAUCOMA. - Hypertensive uveitis. - Causes of glaucoma in uveitis. - Open angle glaucoma. - Angle closure glaucoma. - Medical management of uveitic glaucoma. - Surgical management of uveitis glaucoma. - INFLAMMATORY CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULAR MEMBRANES AND INFLAMMATORY DEPOSITS. - Pathogenesis of iCNV. - Multimodal imaging of iCNV. - Treatment of iCNV. - CYSTOID MACULAR EDEMA. - Pathophysiology of uveitic macular edema. - Differential diagnosis of uveitis macular edema. - Multimodal imaging of uveitic macular edema. - Treatment of uveitic macular edema. - Anti-VEGF. - EPIRETINAL MEMBRANES AND SUBRETINAL FIBROSIS. - RETINAL DETACHMENT SECONDARY TO UVEITIS. - Principal uveitis conditions at risk of retinal detachment. - Prevention of retinal detachment. - Surgical planning. - reoperative management. - Surgical techniques. - Postoperative management. - Endoscopy. - Retinal and chorioretinal biopsies.