Diabetes and Retinopathy 1st Edition Ayman S. El-Baz – eBook PDF

Diabetes and Retinopathy – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128174388,0128174382

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0128174382
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0128174388
• Author: Ayman S. El-Baz, Jasjit Suri PhD MBA FIEEE FAMIBE FAIUM FSVM FAPVS

Diabetes and Retinopathy brings together the multifaceted information about the research and clinical application from academic, clinical, bioengineering and bioinformatics perspectives. The editors bring together a stellar cast of authors to pull together this diverse and interesting field. Academic researchers, bioengineers, new investigators and students interested in diabetes and retinopathy need an authoritative reference to bring this multidisciplinary field together to reduce the amount of time spent on source-searching and more time on actual research and the clinical application. This reference depicts the current clinical understanding of DR as well as the many scientific advances in understanding this condition.

Table of contents:

1. Understanding diabetic retinopathy
   • What is diabetic retinopathy?
   • How the eye and the retina work
   • How we see
2. Forms and symptoms of diabetic retinopathy
   • Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy
   • Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
   • One person’s story
3. Causes and risk factors
   • Cause of diabetic retinopathy
   • Risk factors
   • One person’s story
4. Diagnosis
   • Early detection
   • Comprehensive eye examination
   • Fundus photography
   • Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
   • Fluorescein angiography
   • Ultrasound
   • One person’s story
5. Prevention and treatment
   • Preventing or slowing the progression of diabetic retinopathy
   • Treating diabetic retinopathy
   • One person’s story
6. Living with diabetic retinopathy
   • Low vision rehabilitation
   • Vision aids and other useful products
   • Adapting the home
   • Adapting the workplace
   • Getting around
   • Help from family and friends
   • Specialized psychosocial services
   • One person’s story
7. Treatments of the future
   • Future drugs
   • Future antiangiogenic therapies
   • Gene therapy
   • Stem cell transplantation
8. Useful addresses

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