Macular Hole Surgery

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Macular Hole Surgery, using Brilliant Blue to enhance ILM visualization durinng the peeling by LG

Macular hole – vitrectomy recovery chair (video 2 of 4). Shows patients how to set up, use and adjust the face down chair used during recovery from eye surgery. Many eye conditions may warrant treatment by a vitrectomy, including: macular holes, macular pucker, vitreous detachment, eye floaters, retinal detachment/detached retina, vitreous hemorrhage and diabetic retinopathy. Visit www.facedownsolutions.com for more information.

It was my 1st case of ILM peeling (November 2000). The forceps was very bad. Howevere the postop result was very encouraging. Khaled Abdelgalil Shalaby, MD Al-Azhar University Cairo- Egypt Chief Vitreoretinal Service Dr Soliman Fakeeh Hospital Jeddah- KSA

clear corneal phaco with 23G vit done. TA assisted PVD and BBG stained ILM Peeling done. C3F8 injected with prone positioning post-op.

Re-operation for a failed macular hole sugery. In this surgery the internal limiting membrane is peeled using no stain. The high definition video shows the maneuver nicely. This 75 year old female patient recovered vision from 20/200 to 20/30 about 3 monhs after the surgery.

Macular hole surgery

Macular Hole Surgery. Pars plana vitrectomy for the treatment of full-thickness macular hole with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling assisted by Brilliant Blue staining. Gerardo Garcia-Aguirre, MD, Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en Mexico.