Ningli Wang - Optic Disorders and Visual Field

Advances in Visual Science and Eye Diseases presents the latest progress and achievement made in visual science and eye diseases for eye care health professionals at different links in the chain of eye care delivery including ophthalmologists, researchers, eye care service providers, health policy makers, and medical students.

The series firstly covers major blinding eye diseases, expounding on their characteristics and the latest development in pathogenesis, up-to-date researches and treatment options of the diseases in detail. Then, the series unfolds the pathogenesis, new diagnosis methods, latest surgery techniques, genetic research, animal modelling studies and translational medicine in glaucoma. Next, the series provides an overall picture on 1. the development of ophthalmology in China along with the contribution of Chinese ophthalmologists to the international community from historical perspective and sheds light on its future development directions; 2. eye epidemiological studies and achievements in blindness prevention in China; 4. holistic view on the systematic relationship between the eye and other organs as well as the relationship between eye diseases and systematic diseases. We hope readers can benefit from this series by enriching their latest knowledge in no matter visual science or clinical management of eye diseases.

Ningli Wang is a professor at Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. He is also the director of Tongren Eye Center, Beijing, China.

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In our clinical practice, follow-up observation is generally carried out especially on those cases with unexpected visual function loss, with a hope of finally figuring out the reasons for the impaired vision and visual field. In this way, a large number of cases have been collected. Now, we feel that it is worthy of carefully summarizing the enlightenment, experience, and lessons brought to us when we review these cases. Consequently, the book is compiled based on the analyses of more than 100 visual pathway-related cases with certain changes in the visual fields.

In this book, most of the typical visual field changes have been described in the first two chapters, Visual Field-related Anatomy of Visual Pathway and Interpretation of Visual Field Test. Therefore, those visual field changes that can be recognized at a first glance based on visual field impairment are not mainly discussed in this book. Although we have found the causes of visual filed defects in some cases mentioned in the book, the understanding of the primary reasons is far from enough. In another word, the pathophysiology and molecular genetics mechanisms of these diseases still need further exploration, and the further findings will be presented as one of the main contents of the book republished several years later, which means the tracking of the diseases mentioned in this book has not stopped yet. It is also worth noting that the diagnoses and analyses of these diseases still have many aspects worthy of discussing, and meanwhile, we have also consulted many experts worldwide for their opinions. Our greatest hope after the publication of the book is to hear from the experts and readers from both ophthalmology and non-ophthalmology specialties.

The book is compiled on the basis of the cases collected through years by the authors, but its compilation is completed in less than one year. Therefore, oversights and deficiencies can hardly be avoided and any correction or advice from the readers would be really appreciated.

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