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Retina (3 Volume Set) (Ryan, Retina)

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For a comprehensive book on vitreoretinal disease, there is little to find fault with. For some less common diseases, I found the descriptions in the Gass atlas to be more detailed. Howevere, much is covered in the Ryan series that is not covered in Don Gass's atlas and so the books are complementary. The amount of detail is appropriate for this level of textbook. With three large volumes, it has proved to be a daunting task to get through it all. Retention of all this material is also not easy. For me, repetition and foundation building helps. So..

Before delving into these volumes, I would recommend reading several other retina books first for some background/foundation building including: Freeman's "practical atlas," Holz/Spaid Medical Retina book or Quillen's book, the academy book, and then for surgical techniques Steve Charles book, Ingrid Kressig's books on segmental buckling, and then finally the Highlights book "Retinal and Vitreoretinal surgery." I think these books provide a great foundation before delving into Ryan.

I think the Monographs series books on angiography and electrophysiology (volumes 5 and 2) provide a nice review of these topics before reading Ryan.

Another retina book I am reading simultaneously is Dr. Hartnett's Pediatric Retina book. It is truly excellent as well.

The 3 volumes that were purchased were older volumes and not the one I needed or were pictured on the website. Very disappointed and cost me money to ship back to seller.

Ryan - Retina (4th)
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Table of Contents
VOLUME 1

Part 1 Basic Science, Inherited Retinal Disease and Tumors

Section 1 Anatomy and Physiology

1. The development of the retina, 3
Thomas Reh
Ala Moshiri

2. Stem Cells, 23
Martin Friedlander

3. The choroid: structural considerations, 33
David R. Guyer
Andrew P. Schachat
W. Richard Green

4. Functional anatomy of the mammalian retina, 43
Stephen C. Massey

5. Retinal and choroidal blood flow in health and disease, 83
Alon Harris
David Bingaman
Thomas A. Ciulla
Bruce Martin

6. Electrogenesis of the electroretinogram, 103
Laura J. Frishman

7. Cell biology of the retinal pigment epithelium, 137
Gabriele Thumann
Stephan Hoffman
David R. Hinton

8. Structure and function of rod photoreceptors, 153
Jeannie Chen
Scott Geller
John Flannery

9. The physiology and morphology of the vertebrate retina, 171
Robert F. Miller

Section 2 Visual Psychophysics

10. Color vision and night vision, 209
Joel Pokorny
Vivianne C. Smith

11. Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity, 227
Gary S. Rubin

12. Visual fields in retinal disease, 235
Steven E. Feldon

Section 3 Ocular Immunology

13. Retinal autoimmunity, 253
Wee-Kiak Lim
Robert B. Nussenblatt

Section 4 Evaluation

14. Diagnostic ophthalmic ultrasound, 265
Ronald L. Green
Sandra Frazier Byrne

15. Clinical Electrophysiology, 351*
Thomas E. Ogden

Section 5 Genetics

16. Molecular Genetics of Retinal Disease, 373
Jeremiah Brown, Jr.
Andrew R. Webster
Val C. Sheffield
Edwin M. Stone

Section 6 Retinal Degenerations and Dystrophies

17. Retinitis pigmentosa and allied disorders, 395
Richard G. Weleber
Kevin Gregory-Evans

18. Hereditary choroidal disease, 499*
Diana V. Do
Kang Zhang
Daniel C. Garabaldi
Ronald E. Carr
Janet S. Sunness

19. Abnormalities of cone and rod function, 509*
Janet S. Sunness
Ronald E. Carr

20. Hereditary vitreoretinal degenerations, 519
Albert O. Edwards
Joseph E. Robertson, Jr.

Section 7 Principles of Vitreoretinal Therapy

21. Retinal laser therapy: biophysical basis and applications, 539*
Daniel Palanker
Mark S. Blumenkranz
John J. Weiter

Part 2 Tumors of the Retina, Choroid, and Vitreous
Section 1 Tumors of the Retina

22. Retinoblastoma, 557*
A. Linn Murphree
Michael A. Samuel
J. William Harbour
Nancy C. Mansfield

23. Cavernous hemangioma, 609*
Anita Agarwal
Thomas M. Aaberg, Jr.
Paul Sternberg, Jr.

24. Capillary hemangioma of the retina and von Hippel-Lindau disease, 615
Brad J. Hinz
Andrew P. Schachat

25. Tuberous sclerosis and the eye, 625
Alan F. Cruess
Sanjay Sharma

26. Other phakomatoses, 633*
Jerry A. Shields
Carol L. Shields

27. Retinal metastases, 641
Christopher D. Pelzek
Andrew P. Schachat

28. Remote effects of cancer on the retina, 651
Ranjit S. Dhaliwal
Andrew P. Schachat

29. Melanocytoma of the optic disc, 661
Jerry A. Shields
Leonard Joffe

Section 2 Tumors of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium

30. Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, 667
Helmut Buettner

31. Combined hamartoma of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium, 673
Dean Eliott
Andrew P. Schachat

Section 3 Choroidal Melanoma and Related Issues

32. Choroidal nevi, 679
Justin L. Gottlieb
José Alain Sahel
Daniel M. Albert

33. Epidemiology of uveal melanoma, 691*
Johanna M. Seddon
Tara A. Young

34. Choroidal melanoma: prognosis, 699
Johanna M. Seddon
Tara A. Young

35. Pathology of choroidal melanoma, 711*
Shannath L. Merbs
W. Richard Green

36. Overview of management of posterior uveal melanoma, 735
Jerry A. Shields

37. Enucleation for choroidal melanomas, 739*
Frederick H. Davidorf
Mohamed H. Abdel-Rahman
Timothy H. Tweito
Lewis J. Chorich III

38. Brachytherapy for choroidal melanoma, 747
Dennis M. Robertson
John D. Earle
Robert W. Kline

39. Charged-particle irradiation of uveal melanoma, 761*
Evangelos S. Gragoudas
Anne Marie Lane

40. Surgical resection of choroidal melanomas, 769
Bertil E. Damato
Wallace S. Foulds

41. Vitreous, retinal, and choroidal biopsy, 779*
Anat Loewenstein
W. Richard Green
Diana V. Do
Julia A. Haller

42. Laser treatment of choroidal melanoma, 791*
Norbert Bornfeld
Gerasimos Anastassiou

43. Systematic evaluation and management of patients with choroidal melanoma, 801
James K. V. Willson

44. Collaborative ocular melanoma study, 803
Barbara S. Hawkins
Andrew P. Schachat

Section 4 Other Tumors of the Choroid

45. Choroidal metastasis, 811
Moody D. Wharam, Jr.
Andrew P. Schachat

46. Choroidal osteoma, 819*
Carol L. Shields
Gary C. Brown
Sanjay Sharma
Jerry A. Shields

47. Circumscribed choroidal hemangioma, 829*
George E. Sanborn

48. Miscellaneous uveal tumors, 843*
David J. Wilson

49. Leukemias and lymphomas, 851
Ranjit S. Dhaliwal
Andrew P. Schachat

50. Non-Hodgkin's ("reticulum cell") lymphoma, 867*
Hilel Lewis
Andrew P. Schachat
Arun Singh

VOLUME 2: MEDICAL RETINA
Section 1 Normal Retinal Anatomy and Function

51. Fluorescein angiography: basic principles and interpretation, 873*
Robert N. Johnson
H. Richard McDonald
Everett Ai
J. Michael Jumper
Arthur D. Fu

52. Quantitative fluorescein angiography, 917
Srinivas Sadda
Alex Walsh

53. Diagnostic indocyanine green videogiography, 949*
Christina M. Klais
Michael D. Ober
Antonio P. Ciardella
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi
Jason S. Slakter

Section 2 Pathologic Responses

54. Pathogenesis of serous detachment of the retina and pigment epithelium, 971
Alan C. Bird

55. Steroids in Macular Disease, 979
Carl H. Park
Glenn J. Jaffe

56. Choroidal neovascularization, 991
Stephen J. Ryan
David R. Hinton
Toshinori Murata

Section 3 Treatment Principles

57. Management of intraocular inflammation, 1011
Narsing A. Rao

Section 4 Macular Disease
58. Epidemiology of age-related macular degeneration, 1017*
Johanna M. Seddon
Clara A. Chen

59. Age changes in Bruch's membrane and related structures, 1029
Robyn Guymer
Alan C. Bird

60. Age-related macular degeneration: non neovascular early AMD, intermediate AMD, and geographic atrophy, 1041*
Neil M. Bressler
Susan B. Bressler
Shirley H. Sarks
John P. Sarks

61. Neovascular (exudative) age-related macular degeneration, 1075
Neil M. Bressler
Susan B. Bressler
Stuart L. Fine

62. Choroidal neovascular membrane in degenerative myopia, 1115
Gisele Soubrane
Gabriele J. Coscas

63. Central serous chorioretinopathy, 1135*
Christina M. Klais
Michael D. Ober
Antonio P. Ciardella
Lawrence A. Yanuzzi

64. Macular dystrophies, 1163*
August F. Deutman
Carel B. Hoyng
Janneke J.C. van Lith-Verhoeven

65. Pharmacotherapy of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, 1211
Mark S. Blummenkranz
Darius M. Moshfeghi

Section 5 Retinal Vascular Diseases
66. Etiologic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy, 1241
Robert N. Frank

67. Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, 1285
Emily Y. Chew
Frederick L. Ferris, III

68. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy, 1285
Matthew D. Davis
Barbara A. Blodi

69. Retinal artery obstruction, 1323
Sanjay Sharma
Gary C. Brown

70. Central retinal vein occlusion, 1339*
Prithvi Mruthyunjaya
Sharon Fekrat

71. Branch retinal vein occlusion, 1349*
Stephen Phillips
Sharon Fekrat
Daniel Finkelstein

72. Pregnancy and retinal disease, 1355*
Justin C. Brown
Janet S. Sunness

73. Preeclampsia-eclampsia syndrome, 1367
Richard R. Ober

74. Hypertension, 1377*
Robert P. Murphy
Linda A. Lam
Emily Y. Chew

75. Rheumatic diseases, 1383*
Jennifer E. Thorne
Douglas A. Jabs

76. Parafoveal telangiectasis, 1409
Emily Y. Chew

77. Coats' disease, 1417*
Diana V. Do
Julia A. Haller

77. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and related vasculopathies, 1424
James P. Bolling

79. Hemoglobinopathies, 1429*
Geoffrey G. Emerson
Joseph B. Harlan, Jr.
Sharon Fekrat
Gerard A. Lutty
Morton F. Goldberg

80. Retinopathy of prematurity, 1447*
Earl A. Palmer
Dale L. Phelps
Rand Spencer
Gerard A. Lutty

81. Acquired retinal macroaneurysms, 1475
Emily Y. Chew
Robert P. Murphy

82. Eales' disease, 1479*
Mohammed K. Barazi
Robert P. Murphy

83. Radiation retinopathy, 1483
Albert M. Maguire
Andrew P. Schachat

84. Ocular ischemic syndrome, 1483
Sanjay Sharma
Gary C. Brown

85. The epidemiology of diabetic retinopathy, 1503
Ron Klein
Barbara Klein

86. Clinical Applications of Diagnostic Indocyanine Green Angiography, 1523
Nicole E. Gross
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi

87. Optical coherence tomography and retinal thickness assessment for diagnosis management, 1533
Andrew A. Moshfeghi
Elias C. Mavrofrides
Carmen A. Puliafito

88. Retina-related clinical trials: a resource and bibliography, 1557
Barbara S. Hawkins
Diana V. Do

Section 6 Inflammatory Disease

89. Ocular toxoplasmosis, 1583
Douglas A. Jabs
Quan Dong Nguyen

90. Ocular toxocariasis, 1597
C. P. Wilkinson

91. Cytomegalovirus infections of the retina, 1605*
Jean D. Vaudaux
Gary N. Holland

92. Retinal disease in HIV-infected patients, 1625*
Brian R. Kosobuki
William R. Freeman

93. Acute retinal necrosis syndrome, 1673
Jay S. Pepose
Russell N. Van Gelder

94. Endogenous fungal infections of the retina and choroid, 1683
Gary N. Holland

95. Pars planitis, 1689*
Pravin U. Dugel
Derek Y. Kunimoto
Ronald E. Smith

96. Retinal syphilis and tuberculosis, 1703
David L. Knox

97. Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis, 1721*
Janet L. Davis
J. Donald M. Gass
Karl R. Olsen

98. Scleral Inflammatory Disease, 1731*
Albert T. Vitale
Maite Sainz de la Maza

99. Ocular histoplasmosis, 1749*
Barbara S. Hawkins
Judith Alexander
Sharon D. Solomon
Andrew P. Schachat

100. Birdshot retinochoroidopathy, 1763
Stephen J. Ryan
Narsing A. Rao

101. Multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis, diffuse subretinal fibrosis and punctate inner choroidopathy, 1771*
James C. Folk
Jonathan D. Walker

102. Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome, 1785
Lee M. Jampol
Linda M. Tsai

103. Sarcoidosis
Douglas A. Jabs, 1793
Quan Dong Nguyen

104. Acute multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy, 1803
Alan C. Bird

105. Serpiginous choroiditis, 1811*
J. Michael Jumper
H. Richard McDonald
Robert N. Johnson
Everett Ai
Arthur D. Fu

106. Sympathetic ophthalmia, 1821
Narsing A. Rao

107. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease, 1827*
P. Kumar Rao
Narsing A. Rao

Section 7 Other Diseases

108. Drug toxicity of the posterior segment, 1839
Robert A. Mittra
William F. Mieler

109. Retinal Injuries From Light: Mechanisms, Hazards and Prevention, 1857*
Martin A. Mainster
Patricia L. Turner

110. Traumatic chorioretinopathies, 1871*
James S. Kelley

Section 8 Optic Nerve

111. Optic disc pits and associated serous macular detachment, 1883
Alfredo A. Sadun

VOLUME 3: SURGICAL RETINA
Section 1 What Normally Keeps the Retina Attached?
112. Mechanisms of normal retinal adhesion, 1891
Michael F. Marmor

113. Fluid physiology of the subretinal space, 1909
Jonathan E. Pederson

114. Vitreoretinal interface, 1921
W. Richard Green
Jerry Sebag

Section 2 Retinal Reattachments: Surgical Principles and Techniques

115. Cellular effects of detachment and reattachment on the neural retina and the retinal pigment epithelium, 1991*
Steven K. Fisher
Geoffrey P. Lewis

116. Pathogenic mechanisms of retinal detachment, 2013*
Kean T. Oh
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett
Maurice B. Landers, III

117. The effects and action of scleral buckles in the treatment of retinal detachment, 2021
John T. Thompson

118. Techniques of scleral buckling, 2035
George A. Williams
Thomas M. Aaberg, Jr.

119. Pneumatic Retinopexy, 2071*
Daniel A. Brinton
Eugene S. Lit

120. Primary vitrectomy in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, 2085
Heinrich Heimann
Bernd Kirchhof

121. Optimal procedures for retinal detachments, 2095
G. William Aylward


122. Prevention of retinal detachment, 2107
C.P. Wilkinson

123. Nonrhegmatagenous retinal detachment
Rajiv Anand
William S. Tasman

124. Nonrhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment: Retinal Detachment and Retinoschisis without a Macular Hole in Highly Myopic Eyes, 2143
Masahito Ohji
Yasuo Tano

125. Principles and techniques of vitreoretinal surgery, 2147
Steve Charles

126. Management of the pupil, 2163*
Jay M. Stewart
Eugene de Juan, Jr.

Section 3 Special Adjuncts to Treatment

127. Intraocular gases, 2165
Stanley Chang

128. Perfluorocarbon liquids in vitreous surgery, 2179
Robert Kwun
Stanley Chang

129. Silicone oils: physicochemical properties, 2191*
Jean-Marie Parel
Peter Milne
Sandrine Gautier
Valerie Jallet
Franck Villain

130. Silicone oil in vitreoretinal surgery, 2211
Ron P. Gallemore
Brooks W. McCuen II

131. The Pathogenesis of proliferative vitreoretinopathy, 2235
Peter A. Campochiaro

132. The mechanism of action of drugs for the treatment of vitreoretinal scarring, 2241
Mark S. Blumenkranz
Michael K. Hartzer

133. Vitrectomy for infectious endophthalmitis, 2255
Travis A. Meredith

134. Diagnostic and therapeutic vitrectomy for uveitis, 2277
Russell N. Van Gelder
Henry J. Kaplan
Section 4 Complicated Forms of Retinal Detachment

135. Proliferative vitreoretinopathy, 2283
John T. Thompson

136. Retinotomies and retinectomies, 2311*
Gary W. Abrams
Enrique Garcia-Valenzuela
Sumit K. Nanda

137. Giant retinal tears with proliferative vitreoretinopathy, 2345
Stanley Chang
José Manuel Lopez

138. Posterior penetrating trauma: open globe, 2353
Stephen J. Ryan
Young Hee Yoon

139. Posterior segment manifestations of closed-globe contusion injury, 2365*
Pravin U. Dugel
Peter H. Win
Richard R. Ober

140. Trauma: principles and techniques of treatment, 2379*
Franco M. Recchia
Thomas Aaberg, Jr.
Paul Sternberg, Jr.

141. Intraocular neovascularization, 2403*
Tara A. Young
Joan W. Miller

142. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy: principles and techniques of surgical treatment, 2413
Dean Eliott
Michael S. Lee
Gary W. Abrams

143. Control of perioperative bleeding in vitreoretinal surgery, 2451*
David R. Chow
Serge de Bustros

144. Retinopathy of prematurity, 2463
Michael Trese

145. Surgical aspects of vitreoretinal disease in children, 2477
Petra Meier
Peter Wiedermann

146. Management of combined inflammatory and rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (AIDS and ARN), 2499*
Allan E. Kreiger
Christine R. Gonzales

147. Macular epiretinal membranes, 2509*
H. Richard McDonald
Robert N. Johnson
Everett Ai
J. Michael Jumper
Arthur D. Fu

148. Macular hole, 2527
Raymond N. Sjaarda
John T. Thompson

149. Surgical removal of subretinal choroidal neovascular membranes, 2545*
Daniel P. Joseph
A. Jeffrey Whitehead
Matthew A. Thomas

Section 5 Vitreous Surgery: Additional Considerations

150. Surgical management of submacular hemorrhage, 2555*
Henry C. Lee
Nancy M. Holekamp

151. Limited macular translocation, 2561*
Gildo Y. Fujii
Eugene de Juan, Jr.

152. Macular translocation with 360° peripheral retinectomy, 2581
Mark T. Cahill
Cynthia A. Toth

153. Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Photoreceptor Transplantation Frontiers, 2597*
Vamsi K. Gullapalli
Mohamad A. Khodair
Hao Wang
Ilene K. Sugino
Steven Madreperla
Marco A. Zarbin

154. Artificial vision
Mark S. Humayun
Rohit R. Lakhanpal
James D. Weiland

155. Surgery for diffuse macular edema due to multiple causes, including proliferative vitreoretinopathy
Lyndon da Cruz
Zdenek J. Gregor

156. 25-Gauge Transconjuntictival Sutureless Vitrectomy, 2645
Eugene de Juan, Jr.
Gildo Y. Fujii

This book is considered the "Bible" for vitreo-retinal specialists, as this book gives a comprehensive and conscise insight to diseases, treatment and opinions in the subspecialty. I highly recommend this book to any general ophthalmologist who has a keen interest in the vitreo-retinal subspecialty, and to those who are planning to take post-residency fellowships in this subspecialty.

I just graduated from medical school and trying to become an Ophthalmologist. Since I am not an English speaking person, it is difficult to get informations in English. However, each sections and chapters of this book is well organized and helps me to get accustomed to the medical terms in Ophthalmology. This book is easier to understand than the text books written in Japanese (I am a Japanese).

I found it helpful to form an overview of retinal photoreceptor's connecting cilium relation to retinal degerative diseases. initially I did not know where to start my research but after reading the book section about connecting cilium structure and function , I formed a plan of what are the main topics in my research.