Diseases Affecting the Eye and the Kidney

This volume presents coverage of the broad spectrum of diseases affecting the eye and the kidney. The thorough coverage of diseases with ocular and renal symptoms will enable ophthalmologists to recognize certain types of renal dysfunction and nephrologists to discover specific progressive ocular abnormalities. Clinicians will appreciate that the presence of ocular and renal abnormalities in the same patient may be the first indication of disturbances in other, apparently unrelated, organs or systems. Detection of such complex disorders, frequently hereditary, facilitates early treatment, discovery of the disease in other affected family members, and genetic counselling.