45 Congenital Optic Disc Pits, Morning Glory Disc Anomaly, Optic Nerve Coloboma, and Peripapillary Staphyloma Dolores Berger John B. Kerrison Arthur Korotkin CONGENITAL OPTIC DISC PITS Congenital pits of…
5 Fluorescein Angiography of the Ocular Fundus Eleonora Lavaque D. Virgil Alfaro, III John B. Kerrison INTRODUCTION Over the past thirty years, fluorescein angiography has been technically refined and…
16 Instrumentation and Surgical Adjunctive Techniques for Macular Surgery Masahito Ohji Yasuo Tano INTRODUCTION Instrumentation and techniques, key elements in vitreous surgery, have been developed and modified over the…
48 Macular Disease Secondary to Peripheral Retinal Vasculopathy Maximiliano Gordon Hugo Quiroz-Mercado R.V. Paul Chan Peripheral retinal vascular changes are common findings associated with both local and systemic disease…
59 Surgical Management of Suprachoroidal Hemorrhage Chirag C. Patel Naresh Mandava Hugo Quiroz-Mercado INTRODUCTION Suprachoroidal hemorrhage (SCH) is the accumulation of blood in the suprachoroidal space (Fig. 59-1). This can…
44 Ocular Parasitic Disease Rafael Cortez Gema Ramirez Lucienne Collet In 1950, Wilder reported the first cases of larval forms of nematodal intestinal roundworms causing intraocular disease (1). This…
28 Macular Hole Borja Corcostegui Lorena Patricia Pimentel INTRODUCTION A macular hole is a full thickness defect of retinal tissue involving the anatomic fovea and the foveola of the…
36 Bevacizumab (Avastin) Monica Rodriguez-Fontal Craig M. Greven INTRODUCTION Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody to vascular endothelial growth factor developed for the treatment of cancer. Over the past years,…
46 Macular Trauma Reinaldo A. Garcia Arismendi D. Virgil Alfaro III J. Fernando Arevalo Oria Veronica Gomez Ulla Giora Treister Eye injury is a significant disabling American health problem….
51 Pathologic Myopia Mario Stirpe Guido Ripandelli High myopia is generally defined as a myopia of −6 diopters or more (with the corresponding axial length usually exceeding 26 mm)…
