Book review : Atlas of Fundus Angiography

This book provides an insight into important ophthalmological techniques, which is helpful in view of greater professional teamwork. It stresses when ophthalmoscopy needs supplementation, while indicating when approaches such as angiography could be unnecessary.

The dedication is to the late Professor Klaus Heimann, vitreoretinal expert in Cologne. Thirteen contributors present a highly informative and superbly illustrated text, essentially based on fluorescein angiography. It deals with inherited and many other retinal disorders, including tumours and vascular conditions.

The initial chapter is a concise, balanced, 17-page account of methods of examination, including autofluorescence of RPE lipofuscin. Four pages of comparisons of imaging techniques are particularly arresting; readers should not overlook the valuable short account of adverse effects, immediately following. There is an extended and detailed section on age-related macular conditions, ranging from neovascularisation, with therapeutic aspects, to tears in RPE. Each reader should consider the extent to which the definitions and classes of AMD  match personal ideas.