Main description:

A concise guide for ophthalmologists detailing tuberculosis, which can cause disease in multiple organs throughout the body, including the eye. Tuberculosis is an infection caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can cause disease in multiple organs throughout the body, including the eye. This can also affect any part of the eye (intraocular, superficial, or surrounding the eye), with or without systemic involvement and Ocular Tuberculosis is a text devoted to in-depth coverage of this topic.

Written and edited by international leaders in the field, discussing detailed and practical information on everything from clinical features, ocular imaging studies, and pathology, to investigations, treatment, and surgical management of this disease, Ocular Tuberculosis is a truly comprehensive text.

Contents:

CONTENTS

1 Epidemiological Aspect of Ocular Tuberculosis

May Zun Aung Win and Soon Phaik Chee

2 Pathogenesis and Pathology of Ocular Tuberculosis

Seema Sen

3 Imaging Studies for Ocular Tuberculosis

Atul Kumar, Rohan Chawla, and Ruchir Tewari

4 Laboratory and Radiological Investigations in Diagnosis of Ocular Tuberculosis

Randeep Guleria and Vijay Noel Nongpiur

5 Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon Release Assays in the Diagnosis of Ocular Tuberculosis

Nicole Shu-Wen Chan and Soon-Phaik Chee

6 Management of Ocular Tuberculosis

Nitin Kumar, Eliza Anthony, Parthopratim Dutta Majumder, Ranju Kharel (Sitaula), and Jyotirmay Biswas

7 Tubercular Uveitis

Atul Kumar, Rohan Chawla, Raghav Ravani, and Koushik Tripathy

8 Tubercular Multifocal Serpiginoid Choroiditis

Sahil Jain, Aniruddha Agarwal, Kanika Aggarwal, and Vishali Gupta

9 Tubercular Retinitis and Retinal Vasculitis

Soumyava Basu and Taraprasad Das

10 Tubercular Optic Neuropathy

Rohit Saxena and Divya Singh

11 Ocular Tuberculosis in Immunocompromised Patients

12 Conjunctival and Corneal Tuberculosis

Namrata Sharma and Neelima Aron

13 Tubercular Scleritis

Mi Fang Helen, Rupesh Agrawal, Vishali Gupta, and Carlos Pavesio

14 Orbital and Periorbital Tuberculosis

Neelam Pushker and Amar Pujari