Overview
- Provides clear clinical descriptions of the inherited chorioretinal dystrophies
- Describes the functional repercussions of these diseases
- Presents up-to-date information on their genetic basis
- Written by renowned experts in the field
- Lavishly illustrated with unique and rare illustrations
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Table of contents (54 chapters)
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Inherited Retinal Dystrophies
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bernard Puech, MD, is Consultant Ophthalmologist in the Service d’Exploration Fonctionnelle de la Vision et Neuro-ophtalmologie at the Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille Cedex, France. He has published extensively on ophthalmic genetics.
Jean-Jacques de Laey, MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is Vice-President of the International Council of Ophthalmology until April 2014 and a Board Member of the ICO Foundation. Professor de Laey is one of the Founders of the European Society for Retina Specialists, of EUPO (European University Professors in Ophthalmology), and of EVER (European Vision and Eye Research). He is the author of 5 books and has published over 250 papers, mainly on medical retina.
Graham E. Holder, PhD, has been Director of Electrophysiology and Consultant Electrophysiologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, since 1995. Professor Holder’s early publications related to VEPs, but he has subsequently focused on retinal disease. He has authored over 190 peer-reviewed publications as well as over 35 book chapters, and has also co-authored a CDROM. He is a co-author the American Academy of Ophthalmology monograph on Clinical Visual Electrophysiologic Testing. He was awarded an Honorary Professorship of University College London, at the Institute of Ophthalmology, in 2007, and of the University of Sydney, at Sydney Medical School, in 2013. Professor Holder was joint recipient of a prestigious Alcon award in 2010. He is a past President of EVER, the European Association for Vision and Eye Research, and has been Director of Education of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) since 2001.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inherited Chorioretinal Dystrophies
Book Subtitle: A Textbook and Atlas
Editors: Bernard Puech, Jean-Jacques De Laey, Graham E. Holder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69466-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-69464-9Published: 08 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51801-4Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69466-3Published: 19 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 488
Number of Illustrations: 89 b/w illustrations, 339 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology, Human Genetics, Pathology