Curbside Consultation in Uveitis

49 Clinical Questions

Stephen Foster

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040136331
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Opthalmology & Optometry

Are you looking for concise, practical answers to those questions that are often left unanswered by traditional references on uveitis? Are you seeking brief, evidence-based advice for the daily examination of patients? Curbside Consultation in Uveitis: 49 Clinical Questions provides quick and direct answers to the thorny questions most commonly posed during a "curbside consultation" between experienced clinicians. Dr. Stephen Foster has designed this unique reference in which uveitis specialists offer expert advice, preferences, and opinions on tough clinical questions commonly encountered by ophthalmologists, residents, and other health care professionals. The unique Q&A format provides quick access to current information related to uveitis with the simplicity of a conversation between two colleagues. Images, diagrams, and references are included to enhance the text and to illustrate clinical diagnoses and treatment plans. Curbside Consultation in Uveitis: 49 Clinical Questions provides information basic enough for residents while also incorporating expert pearls that even high-volume ophthalmologists will appreciate. Refractive surgeons, general ophthalmologists, and residents alike will enjoy the user-friendly and casual format. Some of the questions that are answered:
• How do the results of the Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Disease (SITE) Cohort Study apply to the care of my patients with uveitis?
• How should I evaluate and treat a patient with uveitis?
• How should I treat macular edema in a patient with uveitis?
• How should I treat a pregnant woman with macular threatening toxoplasmosis retinochoroiditis?
• When should I refer a patient with uveitis to a uveitis specialist?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editor
• About the Associate Editors
• Contributing Authors
• Introduction
• Question 1 Are There Standard Laboratory Tests That Need to Be Ordered in a Patient With Uveitis?
• Question 2 What Is the Quality and Strength of Evidence in Peer-Reviewed Medical Literature on the Subject of Employment of Steroid-Sparing Immunomodulatory Therapy in the Care of Patients With Uveitis?
• Question 3 When Should I Refer a Patient With Uveitis to a Specialist?
• Question 4 Are There Special Considerations in Treating a Child With Uveitis?
• Question 5 How Should I Treat a Patient With Uveitis and Diabetes Mellitus?
• Question 6 What Underlying Causes should Be Foremost in the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Hypertensive Uveitis?
• Question 7 What Underlying Causes should Be Foremost in the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Hypopyon Uveitis?
• Question 8 When Should I Consider Using Systemic Corticosteroids to Treat Uveitis?
• Question 9 What is the single Most Important source of Diagnostic Leads for Uncovering a Diagnosable Cause of Uveitis?
• Question 10 What Is the Risk of Blindness Due to uveitis in Patients Treated With Steroid Monotherapy?
• Question 11 How Should One Properly Employ Topical Corticosteroid Therapy?
• Question 12 Is There a Difference Between the Various Topical Corticosteroid Preparations?
• Question 13 How Do I Establish a Diagnosis When I Suspect Sarcoidosis to Be the Cause of Uveitis?
• Question 14 When and How Should Intermediate Uveitis Be Treated?
• Question 15 What Are Some Important Associations Between Human Leukocyte Antigen Phenotypes and Specific Uveitis Syndromes?
• Question 16 How Do I Diagnose and Treat Herpetic Uveitis?
• Question 17 When Should I Be Suspicious of Tuberculosis and What Testing Is Useful?
• Question 18 How Often Should Iexamine a Child with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?
• Question 19 How Should I Use Topical Mydriatic and Cycloplegic Agents?
• Question 20 What Are the Indications and Contraindications for the Use of Periocular Corticosteroid Injections?
• Question 21 When Should I Suspect and How Can I Tell if My Patient With Uveitis Has a Masquerade Syndrome Rather Than Autoimmune Uveitis?
• Question 22 How Do I Treat Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in a Patient With AIDS?
• Question 23 What Are the Causes of Keratouveitis?
• Question 24 Which Medications Can Induce Uveitis?
• Question 25 How Do I Diagnose and Treat Fuchs‘ Heterochromic Iridocyclitis?
• Question 26 How Do I Treat a Patient With Ocular Toxoplasmosis?
• Question 27 What Diseases Should I Consider in a Patient With Neuroretinitis?
• Question 28 What Are My Options in Treating Syphilitic Uveitis in a Penicillin-Allergic Patient?
• Question 29 How Do I Treat a Pregnant Woman With a Macula-Threatening Toxoplasmosis Lesion?
• Question 30 How Do You Treat Uveitis in Women Who Are Pregnant or Breastfeeding?
• Question 31 How Do I Diagnose and Treat Acute Retinal Necrosis?
• Question 32 How Do I Diagnose and Treat Posner-Schlossm an Syndrome?
• Question 33 What Is Immune Recovery Uveitis and How Do I Treat It?
• Question 34 How Do I Evaluate and Treat a Patient With Retinal Vasculitis?
• Question 35 How Do I Approach a Patient With Exudative Retinal Detachment and Uveitis?
• Question 36 What Are the Indications for Vitrectomy in a Patient With Uveitis?
• Question 37 How Do You Treat Uveitis-Assooated Macular Edema?
• Question 38 how Can i Differentiate Birdshot retinochoroidopathy from the Other White Dot Syndromes?
• Question 39 Does B-Scan Ultrasonography Assist in Evaluating a Patient With Uveitis?
• Question 40 When Should I Order Fluorescein Angiography or Ocular Coherence Tomography in a Patient With Uveitis?
• Question 41 What Is the Risk of sterility in Patients With Uveitis Who Require Immunomodulatory Therapy?
• Question 42 How Do the Results of the Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases Cohort Study Apply to the Care of My Patients With Uveitis?
• Question 43 How Long Should I wait to Perform Cataract Surgery once an Eye With Uveitis is Inflammation Free?
• Question 44 How Do I Decide When to Place an Intraocular Lens Implant in a Patient With Uveitis?
• Question 45 How Do I Evaluate and Treat a Patient With Persistent Inflammation Following Intraocular Surgery?
• Question 46 What Is the Typical Clinical Presentation of a Patient With Intraocular Lymphoma?
• Question 47 What Are the Causes of Sclerouveitis?
• Question 48 How Do I Differentiate Uveitis From Endophthalmitis?
• Question 49 Should I Enucleate the Inciting Eye in a Patient With Sympathetic Ophthalmia?
• Financial Disclosures
• Index