Basic and Advanced Vitreous Surgery

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Development of Vitreous Surgery (G.B. Bietti memorial lecture)....Pages 1-5
Training For Vitreous Surgery: Animal Surgery....Pages 7-8
Instrumentation for Vitreoretinal Surgery....Pages 9-11
How Automatic Infusion and Suction have Changed During the Last Five Years....Pages 13-20
“Le System”: A Unified Microsurgical Center....Pages 21-27
The Phacoexcavator: A New Approach to Lentectomy....Pages 29-35
Pneumatic Forceps for the Removal of Epiretinal Membranes....Pages 37-38
Mechanical Systems for Irrigation and Suction of High Viscosity Silicone Oil....Pages 39-45
Pre-Vitrectomy Assessment by Ultrasound....Pages 47-52
Preparation of the Patient for Vitrectomy Surgery....Pages 53-57
Vitrectomy Techniques for the Anterior Segment Surgeon....Pages 59-68
The Cornea and Vitreous Surgery....Pages 69-75
Management of Complicated Cataracts Using Vitrectomy Instruments....Pages 77-83
Pars Plana Lensectomy....Pages 85-93
Lens and Vitreous Complications....Pages 95-97
Management of Epithelial Cysts and Ingrowth....Pages 99-109
Vitrectomy in the Management of Dislocated Crystalline Lenses....Pages 111-118
Viscomicrosurgery: The Use of a New Fraction of the Sodium Salt of Hyaluronate....Pages 119-123
Use of the Neodynium Yag Laser for the Anterior Segment Surgeon....Pages 125-127
Surgical Management of Selected Intraocular Lens Complications....Pages 129-134
Closed Vitreous Surgery for Complications of Intraocular Lens Implantation I. Indications....Pages 135-140
Closed Vitreous Surgery for Complications of Intraocular Lens Implantation II. Techniques....Pages 141-144
Closed Vitreous Surgery for Complications of Intraocular Lens Implantation III. Results and Complications....Pages 145-148
Vitrectomy in the Management of Posteriorly Dislocated Intraocular Lenses....Pages 149-151
Pseudophakia: Incidence of Cystoid Macular Edema....Pages 153-155
Pseudophakic Retinal Detachments....Pages 157-161
IOL and Vitreo-Retinal Complications....Pages 163-168
Pars Plana Vitrectomy for the Treatment of Vitreal Hemorrhage....Pages 169-172
Pars Plana Vitrectomy in Chronic Uveitis....Pages 173-175
Giant Retinal Tears....Pages 177-188
Giant Retinal Tear....Pages 189-191
Management of Giant Retinal Tears using Vitrectomy and Fluid/Silicone-Oil Exchange....Pages 193-194
Macular Hole and Retinal Detachment....Pages 195-197
Treatment of Myopic Macular Holes and Detachment with Liquid Vitreous — Intravitreal Gas Exchange....Pages 199-202
Retinal Detachment with Macular Hole....Pages 203-205
Vitrectomy Fluid-Gas Exchange in the Treatment of Macular Hole....Pages 207-209
Complications of Retinal Detachment....Pages 211-213
Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy and Surgical Approach....Pages 215-217
Validity of Scleral Surgery for the Treatment of Vitreo-Retinal Tractions and Proliferations....Pages 219-223
Subretinal Proliferation....Pages 225-228
The use of Silicone Oil Following Failed Vitrectomy for Retinal Detachment with Advanced Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy....Pages 229-232
Behaviour of Retinal Proliferation after Silicone Oil Injection....Pages 233-238
Surgical Treatment of Macular Pucker....Pages 239-246
Preoperative Iris Angiography: a Prognostic Tool for Diabetic Patients....Pages 247-247
Prognostic Values of Preoperative Findings for Diabetic Vitrectomy....Pages 249-253
Lens Influence on Iris Neovascularization and Glaucoma....Pages 255-258
Diabetic Traction Detachment....Pages 259-261
Vitreous Surgery for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 263-273
Removal of Fibrovascular Diabetic Membranes....Pages 275-279
Argon Laser Endophotocoagulation....Pages 281-283
Cataract with Rubeosis Iridis: Its Treatment....Pages 285-287
Long Term Diabetic Retinopathy Vitrectomy Results: 10 Years Follow-Up....Pages 289-294
Management of Postvitrectomy Diabetic Vitreous Hemorrhage....Pages 295-300
Retrolental Fibroplasia: Pathogenesis of Late Stages....Pages 301-302
Retrolental Fibroplasia: Surgical Therapy....Pages 303-304
Indications and Timing of Vitrectomy in Trauma....Pages 305-307
Penetrating Injuries....Pages 309-315
Treatment of Double Perforating Injuries....Pages 317-320
Progress in Foreign Body Extractors....Pages 321-328
Removal of Intraocular Foreign Bodies....Pages 329-332
Vitrectomy in the Management of Infectious Endophthalmitis....Pages 333-341
Complications of Vitreous Surgery....Pages 343-355
Fluid/Gas Exchange in Vitreous Surgery....Pages 357-368
Silicone Oil: Results in 300 Cases....Pages 369-372
Laser Treatment of Retinal Detachment With P.V.R. After Vitrectomy in the Presence of Silicone Oil....Pages 373-375
Internal Tamponade With Silicone Oil: Echographic Evaluation....Pages 377-386
Complications of Silicone oil....Pages 387-388
Endothelial Cell Density in Patients With Intravitreal Silicone oil Injection....Pages 389-395
Vitrectomy and Silicone Oil Infusion: Pattern of Ocular Hydrodynamics....Pages 397-401
Intraocular Silicone oil: an Experimental Study....Pages 403-405
Inhibition of Experimental Intraocular Proliferation and Retinal Detachment by Various Drugs....Pages 407-413
Ocular Effects and Clearance of Intravitreal 5-Fluorouracil....Pages 415-419