Small Animal Ophthalmology What's Your Diagnosis?

About this book

Small Animal Ophthalmology: What's Your Diagnosis? is one of the first books in an exciting new series that combines problem-based learning, case studies, and questions and answers. Designed specifically for veterinarians and students, the series aims to present material in a format to enhance critical thinking and understanding. Adopting a case-based approach, chapters are built around common ophthalmic presentations and are directed by questions to test the reader's ability to interpret clinical history, ophthalmic photographs and diagnostic results in order to provide differential diagnoses, diagnostic plans and treatment options. For veterinary students, Small Animal Ophthalmology: What's Your Diagnosis? is an ideal guide to how ophthalmology cases are handled in the clinical setting. For veterinary practitioners, it is an innovative and interesting way to increase their knowledge and skills in clinical ophthalmology.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Abnormalities of Globe Size and Position
Chapter 2 Eyelid Abnormalities
Chapter 3 Abnormalities of the Third Eyelid
Chapter 4 Ocular Discharge
Chapter 5 The Painful Eye
Chapter 6 The Red Eye
Chapter 7 The Opaque Eye
Chapter 8 Corneal Opacities
Chapter 9 Abnormalities of the Iris
Chapter 10 The Abnormal Pupil
Chapter 11 The Blind Eye
Chapter 12 Ocular Trauma

Appendix 1 Practical Tips for An Ophthalmic Examination
Appendix 2 Further Reading

Glossary
Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Heidi Featherstone obtained her veterinary degree at the Royal Veterinary College in 1991 and completed a residency in veterinary ophthalmology at the Animal Health Trust. She became a Diplomate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2001 and a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists in 2005. Heidi works in a team of ophthalmologists at a multi-specialty hospital in West Midlands, UK.

Elaine Holt obtained her veterinary degree at the University of Illinois and completed a residency in veterinary ophthalmology at the University of California Davis. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists in 2001 and a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists in 2006. She was a lecturer at the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Royal Veterinary College before joining the North Downs Specialist Referrals, a multi-specialty hospital in Surrey, UK.