Common Eye Diseases and their Management

Section 1. Introducing the Eye.- The Scope of Ophthalmology.- Basic Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye.- Examination of the Eye.- Section 2 Primary Eye care Problems.- Long Sight, Short Sight.- Common Disease of the Eyelids.- Common Diseases of the Conjunctiva and Cornea.- The Red Eye.- Failing Vision.- Headache.- Contact Lenses.- Section 3. Problems of the Eye Surgeon.- Cataract.- Glaucoma.- Retinal Detachment.- Squint.- Tumours of the Eye and Adnexae.- Ocular Trauma.- Section 4. Problems of the Medical Ophthalmologist.- Testing Visual Acuity.- The Inflamed Eye.- The Ageing Eye.- The Child's Eye.- Systemic Disease and the Eye.- Neuro-ophthalmology.- Genetics and the Eye.- Drugs and the Eye.- Section 5 Visual Disability.- Blindness.- Further Reading. 

Nicholas Galloway completed his medical training in Cambridge and Edinburgh and began his Ophthalmological training at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and subsequently at Moorfields Eye hospital in London. His MD thesis was on Electrodiagnosis and the Eye. He is the author of "Ophthalmic Electrodiagnosis" and initiated, with the help the department of Medical Physics, the Electrodiagnostic Clinic in Nottingham. He has written papers on general Ophthalmology and served as examiner for FRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons England. He is a past President of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research and past Master of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. After retirement from active practice in 2003 he took up chairmanship of the local charitable society for the Blind.

Winfried Amoaku is an Associate Professor/Reader in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at QMC, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.  After graduating from the University of Ghana Medical School, he undertook his Ophthalmology training in the Northern Ireland Training Programme, Birmingham, and Yorkshire Regional Training Programme. This was complemented with a Medical Retina Fellowship training in University Hospital of Ghent (UZG). He received a PhD from the Queen's University of Belfast for his research on the 'effects of ionising radiation on the eye'. His subspecialty interest is medical retina diseases and uveitis. His research complements his clinical practice, and focuses on the occurrence, pathogenesis and treatments of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal vascular diseases. He has advised NICE on previous HTAs in retinal disease, as well as DH and Horizon Scanning. He has also served on ad hoc Advisory Boards of different pharmaceutical companies on different aspects of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic macular oedema, non-infectious uveitis, and retinal vein occlusion. He