Research Catalog

Title

Clinical trials in ophthalmology : a summary and practice guide / authors [i.e., editors], Peter Kertes, Mandi D. Conway.

Publication

Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Kertes, Peter J.
• Conway, Mandi D.
• Kertes, Peter.

Description

xxix, 378 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

A concise resource designed to help the practitioner apply important clinical trials to everyday practice. The contributors provide the rationale, design, outcome measures and summaries of the major results on their important studies, including studies on macular photocoagulaton, laser treatment and techniques, diabetes and aids, optic neuritis, herpetic eye disease, central vein occlusion, CRYO-ROP, and normal-tension glaucoma.

Subjects

• Eye Diseases > therapy
• Clinical trials
• Eye > Diseases > Treatment
• Clinical Trials as Topic

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The diabetic retinopathy study / David A. Quillen, Thomas W. Gardner, George W. Blankenship -- The early treatment diabetic retinopathy study / Levent Akduman, R. Joseph Olk -- The diabetic retinopathy vitrectomy study / Travis A. Meredith -- The diabetes control and complications trial / Ronald Klein -- The macular photocoagulation study / Jeffrey W. Berger, Maureen G. Maguire, Stuart L. Fine -- The endophthalmitis vitrectomy study / Bernard H. Doft -- The branch vein occlusion study / Sharon Fekrat, Daniel Finkelstein -- The multicenter trial of cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity / J. Arch McNamara -- The silicone study / Ronald C. Gentile, Gary W. Abrams -- The submacular surgery trials / Nancy Melberg-Holekamp, Matthew A. Thomas -- The studies of ocular complications of aids research group / James P. Dunn, Douglas A. Jabs -- The ganciclovir implant studies / Daniel F. Martin -- Recent clinical trials in uveitis conducted at the National Eye Institute / Robert Nussenblatt, Eric Fortin, Scott Whitcup -- The collaborative ocular melanoma study / Camille Servodidio, David Abramson -- The optic neuritis treatment trial / Roy W. Beck -- The herpetic eye disease study / Bruce A. Barron -- The glaucoma laser trial / Sai B. Gandham, George L. Spaeth, L. Jay Katz -- The fluorouracil filtering surgery study / Richard K. Parrish II, Joyce C. Schiffman, William J. Feuer -- The normal-tension glaucoma study / Douglas R. Anderson -- The ocular hypertension treatment study / Stephanie M. Po, Michael A. Kass -- Suggested laser treatment techniques / Mandi D. Conway, R. Joseph Olk, Peter J. Kertes.

ISBN

0683302051

LCCN

^^^97042620^

OCLC

37771046

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library