Dr. Howard Harvey Tessler M.D.
Ophthalmologist
48 S Greenleaf St Gurnee IL, 60031About
Dr. Howard Tessler is an ophthalmologist practicing in Gurnee, IL. Dr. Tessler specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Tessler can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Tessler can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1965
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Findings typical of Susac's syndrome in a patient with scleroderma.
- Tissue plasminogen activator to treat impending pupillary block glaucoma in patients with acute fibrinous HLA-B27 positive iridocyclitis.
- Corneal dellen in the limbal approach to rectus muscle surgery.
- Multiple recurrences of exudative retinal detachment in a patient with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
- Revised diagnostic criteria for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease: report of an
- Disciform keratitis induced by varicella virus.
- Risk factors for complications following traumatic hyphema.
- Long-term follow-up of patients treated with short-term high-dose chlorambucil for sight-threatening ocular inflammation.
- Ocular inflammatory disease: use of topical and systemic anti-inflammatory agents.
- Aqueous and serum lysozyme values in experimental uveitis in rabbits.
- Intraocular lysozyme in experimental uveitis in rabbits: aqueous and vitreous assay.
- Re: mitomycin-induced punctal stenosis.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of diffuse cerebral vasculitis associated with acute retinal necrosis.
- Risks of computerized tomography in the evaluation of chronic uveitis.
- Bilateral eyelid ecchymoses and corneal crystals: an unusual presentation of multiple myeloma.
Awards
- 2012 Chicago Super Doctors
Treatments
- Uveitis, Macular Degeneration, Cornea Problems
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