Ten Mistakes One Should Avoid in Small Incision Cataract Surgery
Mastering Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) lays a solid foundation for achieving sutureless cataract surgery in the majority of the cases. This article aims to bring forth some commonly committed errors in SICS. Nuclear grade: Though a surgeon is not expected to choose a patient, but a beginner should avoid extremes of nuclear grade. A grade 3 nucleus with a 6mm external incision and >6mm ca...Read More
Drug Induced Maculopathy: A Quick Look
Generally all the drugs are likely to have some side effects. For ophthalmologists, it is essential to know the drugs which affect the vision or involve the eye as a part of their side-effects. This is a summary of the drugs causing damage to the posterior segment of the eye. Patterns of retinal toxicity: Disruption of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium Vascular damage Retinal folds Phenoit...Read More
Introduction History In 1908 George Coats1 original description of the disease was based primarily on histopathologic examination of enucleated eyes and identified retinal vascular aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, intra- and subretinal hemorrhages, and exudates. Coats categorized eyes with these characteristic morphologic findings into three groups: Group I demonstrated massive subretinal e...Read More
The Effects & Techniques of Scleral Buckle in Treatment of Retinal Detachment
Introduction: Scleral buckle surgery is indicated for uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. Scleral buckling indents the sclera and the overlying choroid retinal pigment epithelium complex towards the retinal break in the detached retina, resulting in retinal reattachment. Scleral buckle surgery evolved out of the works of Jules Gonin, who identified retinal breaks as the cause of reti...Read More
Ten Tips for Beginners to Start Vitreoretinal Practice
1. Higher cause/vision and mission statement : Setting up a vitreoretinal surgery / medical retina practice should come with a higher calling apart from simply making a living. It is very important to have one to sail through tough initial months or years till your practice reached a break-even point. Till the business starts making money this higher calling will keep up your spirits high and moti...Read More
Acanthamoeba Keratitis: A review for the Postgraduates
Eye diseases affecting the cornea are a major cause of blindness worldwide. Among different infectious agents, bacteria, fungi, viruses and protozoans may be causes of keratitis. This article is about the keratitis caused by protozoa. Three amoebic parasites are thought to be significant to human disease, entamoeba which is responsible for amoebic dysenter, naegleria which causes amoebic meningoen...Read More
Ten Yoga Poses Every ophthalmologist Should Know & Practise
Doctors, both frontline COVID warriors, and practitioners are passing through one of the most challenging phases in their professional careers. A recent survey article in the “Indian journal of ophthalmology “ showed alarming levels of depression and suicidal tendencies among ophthalmologists during this lockdown. Practicing yoga postures will definitely help to uplift and balance your energies on...Read More
WHO (ICD-10) defines low vision as “A person who has impairment of visual functioning even after treatment and/ or standard refractive correction, and has a visual acuity of less than 6/18 to light perception, or a visual field less than 10 degrees from the point of fixation, but who uses, or is potentially able to use, vision for the planning and/ or execution of a task for which vision is essent...Read More
Introduction Optical Coherence Tomography is a powerful noninvasive imaging modality that performs high resolution, micron-scale, cross-sectional imaging of the retina. Originally developed in 1991 by Huang et al, [1] OCT technology has continually evolved and expanded within ophthalmology and has been explored in a wide range of clinical applications. With the introduction of Spectral/ Fourier Do...Read More
Refraction Simplified for the Post Graduates
The optics of the eye normally creates a clear image by refracting rays of light to focus on the retina. Imperfections in this optical system create aberrations and thus blurred images. The goal is to analyze them and devise a means to eliminate them. Lower order aberrations are primarily refractive errors when parallel rays of light after refracting, do not focus on the retina with accommodation ...Read More