April 2009

Current Issues, Debates in Vitreoretinal Surgery

Allen C. Ho, MD, and Robert L. Avery, MD

The MD Patient Charter: An Initiative to Empower Those With Macular Disease

Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, News & Contributing Editor

Medical Update

A summary of general medicine news that affects your patients, your practice, and you.

Section Editor: David Boyer, MD

The Job Search Experience

Nationwide perspective from second-year vitreoretinal fellows.

Omesh P. Gupta, MD, MBA, and Anita G. Prasad, MD

Seeking ASC Accreditation

You have decided to become accredited. These are your next steps.

Barbara Ann Harmer, RN, BSN, MHA

Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Involving the Fovea

Mitsuko Yuzawa, MD

Vitrectomy for Repair of Retinal Detachment

Meticulous attention to technique and illumination helps make the surgery more effective.

Kourous A. Rezaei, MD

Current Status of Small-gauge Vitreoretinal Surgery

Recent advances have helped to overcome the disadvantages initially encountered with this technique.

J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS; and María H. Berrocal, MD

27-gauge Vitrectomy

The use of these smaller instruments in vitrectomy surgery is both possible and optimal for completely self-sealing wounds.

Yusuke Oshima, MD, PhD

25-Gauge Macular Hole and Macular Pucker Surgery

Study analyzes visual results and complications of PPV in 290 eyes.

John O. Mason III, MD; Thomas A. Finley, MD; Jennifer Oakley; Rachel S. Vail, COT; Milton F. White Jr., MD; Richard M. Feist, MD; Martin L. Thomley, MD; Michael A. Albert Jr., MD; Tarek O. Persaud, MD; and Jacob J. Yunker, MD

Surgical Efficiencies in the ASC- vs Hospital-based OR

Two surgeons share how they incorporate efficiencies into the most important factor in surgery: patient outcomes.

Management of Soldier's Eye Injuries from Iraq to Home

LTC Eric D. Weichel, MD; LTC Mark Nelson, MD; and COL David Zumbro, MD

Macular Hole Surgery With Air Tamponade and OCT-based Duration of Prone Positioning

A modified OCT can determine hole closure and reduce inconvenience for some patients.

Claus Eckardt, MD

Reducing Endophthalmitis in Vitrectomy

Recommendations from the Microsurgical Safety Task Force

Richard S. Kaiser, MD

Use of Hand-held SD-OCT in the Management of Pediatric Retinal Diseases

Rajeev H. Muni MD, FRCSC, and Thomas C. Lee, MD

Testing Visual Sensitivity at the Level of the Retina

OCT/SLO Microperimetry takes advantage of one-to-one correspondence between surface detail captured by SLO and the in-depth detail of the OCT.

Richard Rosen, MD

Optimized Filters for Fundus Autofluorescence Imaging

New filters minimize noise and improve image contrast.

Richard F. Spaide, MD (Reviewed)

Autofluorescence Imaging

Clinical application with SD OCT imaging.

Frank G. Holz, MD

Ocular Oncology Case Study

Solitary idiopathic choroiditis (SIC) in a patient with a history of breast carcinoma.

Carlos Bianciotto Delich MD, and Carol L. Shields, MD

New Forceps for Small-gauge Surgery

Another option for 25-gauge procedures.

Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD

Innovations

5Q With Albert J. Augustin, MD

Albert J. Augustin, MD, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Klinikum Karlsruhe and Director of Augenklinik in Karlsruhe, Germany.