Table Of ContentUwe Pleyer · Jorge L. Alió · Talin Barisani-Asenbauer
Phuc Le Hoang · Narsing A. Rao Editors
Immune Modulation and
Anti-Infl ammatory Therapy
in Ocular Disorders
IOIS Guidelines
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Immune Modulation and Anti-
Infl ammatory Therapy in Ocular
Disorders
Uwe Pleyer • Jorge L. A lió
Talin Barisani-Asenbauer
Phuc Le Hoang • Narsing A. Rao
Editors
Immune Modulation
and Anti-Infl ammatory
Therapy in Ocular
Disorders
IOIS Guidelines
Editors
Uwe Pleyer Phuc Le Hoang
Department of Ophthalmology Department of Ophthalmology
Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum Pitié-Salpêtrière’s University Hospital
Berlin Paris
Germany France
Jorge L. Alió Narsing A. Rao
Division of Ophthalmology Doheny Eye Institute
Miguel Hernandez University University of Southern California Keck
Vissum-Instituto Oftalmologico de School of Medicine
Alicante Los Angeles, CA
Spain USA
Talin Barisani-Asenbauer
Centre of Ocular Infl ammation
and Infection OCUVAC
Medical University of Vienna Laura
Bassi Centre of Expertise
Vienna
Austria
ISBN 978-3-642-54349-4 ISBN 978-3-642-54350-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-54350-0
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We dedicate this book to our teachers: patients and colleagues.
In particular to the members of IOIS in their efforts to care,
fi ght, and teach on the many aspects of ocular infl ammation.
Pref ace
T his IOIS guideline on “immune modulation and anti-infl ammatory therapy
in ocular disorders” is a continuation of our efforts to provide relevant details
on ocular infl ammations to the practicing clinician. All segments of the eye
can be affected by often destructive and sight-threatening infl ammatory dis-
eases. Frequently the management of such disorders provides a challenge to
physicians to handle them and for patients to follow instructions in avoiding
complications of therapy. The rapid advance of our knowledge base and
development of new immunomodulatory agents have culminated in a new era
of medical care. Such advances allow us proper management of ocular
infl ammatory conditions.
This IOIS guideline on treatment of ocular infl ammation is intended to
provide the practitioner evidence-based practical information on therapeutic
interventions based on recent advances in immunomodulatory agents.
Therapeutic interventions in the broad area of ocular surface disorders, post-
surgical noninfectious infl ammations, uveitis related to systemic autoimmune
disorders, and organ-specifi c infl ammatory and immune diseases are covered
by international experts. In addition, these experts provided relevant discus-
sions on mechanisms underlying these conditions by incorporating results of
most recent research literature.
We are grateful to all authors who have contributed to this edition of the
IOIS guidelines and invested their valuable time with primary goal of provid-
ing succinctly proper and cutting-edge management of ocular infl ammations.
We believe that this book by providing proper guidelines for the management
of the ocular infl ammatory disorders will help both clinicians and patients
suffering from potentially preventable blindness globally.
Berlin, Germany Uwe Pleyer , MD, FEBO
Los Angeles, CA, USA Narsing Rao
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Contents
1 Ocular Allergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Andrea Leonardi and Neal P. Barney
2 Immune Modulation in Ocular Mucous
Membrane Pemphigoid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
John Kenneth George Dart and Valerie P.J. Saw
3 Diagnosis and Management of Scleritis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Claire Hooper and Peter McCluskey
4 Noninfectious Infl ammation in Cataract Surgery . . . . . . . . . . 63
Nick Mamalis and Stanley R. Fuller
5 Corneal Infl ammation Following Excimer Laser Surgery. . . . 75
Jaime Javaloy, Jorge L. Alió, and Alfredo Vega Estrada
6 Prevention and Treatment of Transplant Rejection
in Keratoplasty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Uwe Pleyer and Anna-Karina Brigitte Maier
7 Immunomodulation Against Infl ammatory
Postkeratoplasty Neovascularisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Björn Bachmann and Claus Cursiefen
8 Treatment of Infl ammation Secondary
to Vitreoretinal Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Carolina Arruabarrena Sánchez and Marta S. Figueroa
9 Treatment of Intermediate Uveitis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Elisabetta Miserocchi, Umberto De Benedetto,
and Giulio Modorati
10 Posterior Uveitis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Piergiorgio Neri, Ilir Arapi, Uwe Pleyer, Moncef Khairallah,
Soumyava Basu, Michele Nicolai, Vittorio Pirani,
Alfonso Giovannini, and Cesare Mariotti
11 Cystoid Macular Edema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Marc D. de Smet
12 Safety of Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases. . . . . 231
Dana M. Hornbeak and John H. Kempen
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Description:These guidelines, compiled by a panel of clinicians and scientists with a high level of expertise, aim to provide readers with the most up-to-date and comprehensive instructions on the treatment and prevention of ocular inflammation. All of the recommendations are explicitly linked to supporting evi