Fourth Edition
by Steve Charles
Vitreous Microsurgery is a comprehensive how-to guide to all vitreoretinal procedures and describes many new techniques and refinements of established procedures.
Vitreous Microsurgery features:
- Comprehensive how-to guide to vitreoretinal surgical procedures by the foremost leader in the field
- More than 160 three-dimensional full-colour illustrations enable surgeons to clearly visualize the techniques
- Chapter on small diameter (25-gauge) sutureless transconjunctival vitrectomy
- State-of-the-art information on anti-VEGF therapy for age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, central vein occlusion, and branch retinal vein occlusion
- Information on intravitreal Kenalog
- Strategies for managing retinopathy of prematurity
Contents
- Presurgical Evaluation and Decision Making
- Surgical Systems and Tools, Anesthesia, and Operating Room Organization
- Victrectomy Techniques and Technology for Anterior Segment Problems
- General Posterior Segment Techniques
- 25-Gauge, Sutureless, Trans-Conjunctival Vitrectomy
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Prophylaxis of Retinal Breaks and Scleral Buckling
- Victrectomy for Retinal Detachment
- Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy
- Giant Breaks
- Pneumatic Retinopexy and Office Fluid Air and Gas Exchange
- Epimacular Membranes
- Macular Holes
- Submacular Surgery and Macular Translocation
- Non-Surgical Treatment of Subfoveal Choroidal Neovascular Membranes
- Intra-Vitreal Corticosteroids
- Venous Occlusive Disease
- Trauma
- Endophthalmitis
- Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Pediatric Traction Retinal Detachments
- Inadvertent Penetration of the Eye
- Management of Supra-Choroidal Hemorrhage
- Complications of Vitreoretinal Surgery
- Surgical Self-Education
Index