Description
Conjunctivitis is also known as madras eye in India and pink eye in North America. This book discusses various aspects regarding medical features, factors and clinical therapies in order to control conjunctivitis. It encompasses numerous factors i.e. symptoms, surveys on epidemiologic facets, practices and therapies for distinct conjunctivitis and also impacts and usage of leukotriene antagonists. It also discusses microscopic observation and alterations in mediators and cytokines in the tears. Use of anti-adenoviral agents to treat the severe conjunctivitis caused by adenovirus, measures used prior to the eye surgery, various factors of ‘ophthalmia neonatorum’, ‘trachoma’ and physiopathological and immunological features of conjunctivitis are some of the other aspects talked about in this book. This book also discusses the conjunctivitis caused by Thelazia worms primarily in animals. It is a comprehensive read on conjunctivitis and will aid patients, students and practitioners to better understand this infection.
