This paper discusses a 32-year-old woman's case who presented a chronic decrease of visual acuity. In this case, the treatment was complex and consisted of a 25 GA vitrectomy, MLI peeling, covering the defect at the optic nerve papilla with that patch, gas endotamponade (C3F8). MLI = internal limiting membrane; ODP-M = optic disc pit maculopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the last few years, structural and functional optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology has seen new and revolutionary developments. The most important of all is OCT angiography (Angio-OCT). Angio-OCT already plays an important role in clinical ophthalmology as a new, non invasive and dyeless diagnostic tool, which serves as an adjunct to, or even a replacement for fluorescein and indocyanine green (ICG) angiographies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe term "chromovitrectomy" has been coined to define the use of vital dyes in vitreoretinal surgery. The basic concept for the application of vital dyes during vitreoretinal surgery is to assist in highlighting preretinal membranes and tissues which are very thin and semitransparent and thus difficult to detect. Various dyes are currently being used in routine clinical procedures, however, the ideal staining agent has not yet been found.
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