Presents practical information for the diagnosis, management, and referral of common ocular disorders. This title includes images and resources, additional sample clinical problems, and the information on such areas as glaucoma care and eye-related aging changes.

Informs ophthalmologists about the medical conditions most likely to affect their patients, such as infectious, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, rheumatologic disorders. Includes a discussion of geriatrics and an extensively revised chapter on statistics. Contains numerous updated references as well as helpful tables listing the names, indications, and side effects of antibiotic, antihypertensive and anticancer drugs.