2015-2016 Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC)

Keep your ophthalmic knowledge current with the Academy's 2015-2016 Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC). BCSC is the most extensive compilation of ophthalmic scientific research and clinical experience, and it is continually updated by a faculty of more than 80 expert ophthalmologists. Section [...]
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Keep your ophthalmic knowledge current with the Academy's 2015-2016 Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC). BCSC is the most extensive compilation of ophthalmic scientific research and clinical experience, and it is continually updated by a faculty of more than 80 expert ophthalmologists. Section 9 has been fully revised for the 2015-2016 edition, and begins with an overview of immune-mediated eye disease, summarizing basic immunologic concepts, ocular immune responses and special topics in ocular immunology. Discusses the clinical approach to uveitis and reviews non-infectious and infectious forms of uveitis, with an expanded section on viral uveitis and new material on infectious and non-infectious scleritis. Enhanced detection of infectious agents by immunologic and genetic methods and biologic therapeutics are detailed.