Diabetic Retinopathy for the Comprehensive Ophthalmologist

1. A Tiny Bit of Statistics and a Big Pep Talk
2. Basic Science
3. Know Your Weapons—Lasers and Their Ilk
4. Contact Lenses and the Wrangling Thereof
5. Diabetic Macular Edema—The Basics
6. Trust Me, I’m A Doctor: Part One: The Informed Consent for Treating Diabetic Macular Edema
7. Actually Doing a Laser for Macular Edema
8. The Chapter That is Really About Actually Doing a Laser for Diabetic Macular Edema
9. Lasers 202
10. Now What? Post-Laser Management of Macular Edema
11. Intravitreal Therapy and How It Fits Into Your Armamentarium... Or Not
12. Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night
13. Trust Me, I’m A Doctor: Part Two: The Informed Consent for Panretinal Photocoagulation (PRP)
14. Actually Doing Panretinal Photocoagulation
15. Doc, At Least It’s Not as Bad as Having a Baby: Pain Control for PRPs
16. You Should Not Do Magic You Do Not Understand: Complications of Laser Treatment
17. Now What? Following a PRP and All Those Little Hemorrhages
18. When to Bail Out, Give Up, Drop Off the Key, Lee, and Refer for Vitrectomy
19. Front End Trouble—Iris Neovascularization
20. The Most Useful Chapter in the Book (But You Wouldn’t Read It If It Had an Informative Title)
21. The Big Bucks
22. Diabetic Papillopathy
23. Proliferating While Proliferating: Diabetic Retinopathy During Pregnancy
24. Cataract Surgery & Diabetic Retinopathy
25. A Thinning of the Blood
26. Differential Diagnosis
27. Just How Often Do You Have to Drag Them Back, Anyway?

This book is designed to transfer useful skills for the clinical management of diabetic patients. The target audience is residents, beginning retina fellows and comprehensive ophthalmologists interested in fine-tuning their approach to diabetic retinopathy. Further information and sample downloads of the book are available at drcobook.com. Please note that the book is now 3 years old--it covers the basics but not the most recent data. A second edition is planned for next year