All incisional surgery requires inflammation to promote wound healing and recovery. In the eye, these inflammatory messengers cause retinal and optic nerve blood vessels to become leaky.
Read MoreCRVO is a frequently encountered retinal disease. Risk factors include age, glaucoma, or vascular diseases including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes. Furthermore, smoking and taking oral contraceptives increase the risk in otherwise healthy individuals.
Read MoreDuring my career, macular holes have gone from an untreatable disease to one which is almost always repairable. Surgical success has improved over time with advancements in surgical techniques and equipment. In my opinion, peeling the ILM, achievable with the use of intraocular dye, has greatly increased the rate of successful hole closure.
Read MoreEpiretinal membranes are a very common ocular disease, affecting as many as 30 million Americans. The majority of patients experience minimal visual disturbance. In about 20% of patients, the pucker worsens and causes progressive vision loss.
Read MoreIn recent years, anti-VEGF injections have been utilized to treat patients with diabetic macular edema. While treating diabetics for edema with anti-VEGF therapy, an improvement in the diabetic retinopathy is frequently observed.
Read MoreThe treatment for diabetic retinopathy has come a long way in the past forty years. Initially an untreatable, blinding disease, it is now quite responsive to therapy.
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