Pharmacologic Therapy of Ocular Disease

• Other Authors: Azar, Dimitri T. (Editor), Whitcup, Scott M. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland Springer 2017; ©2017
• Series: Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; |v |x 0171-2004 v. 242
• Subjects: Eye Diseases > drug therapy; Eye > drug effects; Drug Delivery Systems
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"There have been major advancements in the pharmacologic treatment of eye diseases over the past decade. With newly discovered disease targets and novel approaches to deliver therapeutic compounds to the eye, patients are seeing improved outcomes. Not only are there better treatments for diseas...

Table of Contents:

• Principles of ocular pharmacology / Yong Park, Dorette Ellis, Brett Mueller, Dorota Stankowska, Thomas Yorio
• Ocular pharmacokinetics / Chandrasekar Durairaj
• Ocular drug delivery / Burcin Yavuz, Uday B. Kompella
• Ocular pharmacology of tear film, dry eye, and allergic conjunctivitis / Shilpa Gulati, Sandeep Jain
• Anti-infective and anti-inflammatory pharmacotherapies / Mark I. Rosenblatt
• Keratoconus and other corneal diseases: pharmacologic cross-linking and future therapy / Kimberly M. Hsu, Joel Sugar
• Lens: management of cataract surgery, cataract prevention, and floppy iris syndrome / Joao Crispim, Wallace Chamon
• Glaucoma-intraocular pressure reduction / Alex S. Huang, Lilit Minasyan, Robert N. Weinreb
• Translational pharmacology in glaucoma neuroprotection / Leonard A. Levin
• Pharmacologic treatment of noninfectious uveitis / Jared E. Knickelbein, Karen R. Armbrust, Meredith Kim, H. Nida Sen [and others]
• Anti-angiogenic therapy for retinal disease / Yannis M. Paulus, Akrit Sodhi
• Corticosteroids and anti-complement therapy in retinal diseases / Raja Narayanan, Baruch D. Kuppermann
• Dry age-related macular degeneration pharmacology / Charles B. Wright, Jayakrishna Ambati
• Hereditary retinal dystrophy / Thomas C. Hohman
• Optic nerve / Lynn K. Gordon.