hallmark of modern cataract surgery is excellent visualization with a modern coaxial operating microscope. As with any biologic phenomenon, dilation of the pupil can be quantitated by placing it on…

lindness due to corneal disease is usually difficult or impossible to treat. Results of penetrating keratoplasty may be acceptable for classical indications, but in complicated situations such as profusely vascularized…

description of conjunctival lymphatics is important for this book, as some Fugo blade techniques for glaucoma are designed to minimize trauma to the lymphatics. The lymphatics are certainly present under…

hat follows is a description of the surgical management of a case of hemophthalmos using the Fugo blade in surgical procedures that were unimaginable only a few years ago. The…

urgical management of thick iridocapsular membranes is difficult. At times, these membranes may be so tough that it becomes difficult if not impossible to cut them with a capsulotomy needle,…

case of a metal foreign body impacted in the retina and encysted in thick fibrous tissue is described below. CASE STUDY The patient had been injured 8 years previously while…

tenon capsule is like a hornets’ nest: disturb it and it strikes back. Most postsurgical complications after filtration procedures arise from the tenon capsule. The Fugo blade makes it possible…

he proliferative fibrotic response of the tenon capsule leads to filtration failure. Keloid formation or “sclerification” of the subconjunctival connective tissue/tenon capsule can happen slowly over weeks or months, or…

ungal, bacterial, or mixed corneal infections are common in poor countries. Corneal infections result from neglect of the infectious processes from the start and ineffectiveness of treatment once started. Partial…

ales disease is an idiopathic obliterative vasculopathy that usually involves the peripheral retina in young adults. In 1880, Henry Eales first described it in healthy young men with abnormal retinal…