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## Meet the editors

Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia, MD, is a Clinical and Research Professor of Ophthalmology at Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He is also a Director of the Immunology and Uveitis Service at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Zambrano-Hellion Hospital; an Academic and Senior Clinical Research Coordinator of the Multicentric Ophthalmology Residency Program; and a former President of the

Center for Ocular Inflammatory Disorders of the Mexican Society of Ophthalmology. Dr. Rodriguez-Garcia received the Best Clinical Professor of Medicine Award. He was appointed as a Professor of Ophthalmology with Best Academic Evaluation, as well as a Postgraduate Professor with the Highest Scientific Production at Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Ocular Immunology and Uveitis at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School.

C. Stephen Foster, MD, FAC., FACR, is the Founder and President of the Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institute and the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation. He is also a Professor of Ophthalmology, part-time, and an Adjunct Professor of Allergy and Immunology, Harvard Medical School; a surgeon in Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; and a Clinical Associate in Surgery, Massachusetts General

Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Foster received the American Academy of Ophthalmology Award in 1983, the Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Scientific Investigator Award in 1995, and the Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology in 2005. He also received a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Ophthalmology in 2007. In 2016, he was named as one of America's top doctors in ophthalmology for the 15th consecutive year.

Contents

**Section 1**

Management of Uveitis

*by Cristhian A. Urzua*

Behcet's Disease

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

*by Karina Julian and Bahram Bodaghi*

for Noninfectious Uveitis Treatment

**Preface III**

Noninfectious Uveitis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 19**

Infectious Uveitis **31**

**Chapter 4 33**

**Chapter 5 47**

Advances in Therapeutic Strategies for Uveitis **61**

**Chapter 6 63** A Novel Ocular Drug Delivery System of Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate

**Chapter 7 83**

*by Kongnara Papangkorn, John W. Higuchi, Balbir Brar and William I. Higuchi*

Biological Therapies that Target Inflammatory Cytokines to Treat Uveitis

*by Ashvini Reddy, Fauziyya Muhammad and Darren J. Lee*

Tuberculosis and Immunosuppressive Treatment in Uveitis Patients *by François Willermain, Laure Caspers, Weber Celia and Dorine Makhoul*

Introductory Chapter: Current and Future Trends in the Diagnosis and

*by Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia and C. Stephen Foster*

Viral Retinitis: Diagnosis and Management Update *by Abhinav Dhami and Ravinder Kaur Malhi*

## Contents


#### **Chapter 8 115**

Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Inhibitory Therapy for Non-Infectious Autoimmune Uveitis *by Judy L. Chen, Ann-Marie Lobo-Chan, Robison Vernon Paul Chan and Pooja Bhat* 
