• Covering the entire spectrum of inherited eye diseases, including retinal degenerative disorders that lead to vision loss, this guide
• devotes entire chapters to specific diseases such as glaucoma and strabismus-offering clinical descriptions, laboratory tests, methods to confirm diagnoses, and insights into disease pathology, epidemiology, and genetics
• studies recently identified genes and the identification and management of new eye disorders
• reviews the clinical evaluation, prognostic assessment, and management of inherited eye diseases
• presents chapters according to the affected tissue or disease entity-serving as a quick and easily-accessible guide for busy practitioners and optometrists

Keeping pace with the changing face of genetics in ophthalmology, this Second Edition contains new chapters on molecular genetics, thrombophilia, and genetically triggered retinal vascular diseases, as well as offers many new subchapters highlighting current research by recognized leaders in the field.