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Protecting the retinal pigment epithelium during macular hole surgery
Jeffrey L Olson1, Alexander V On, Naresh Mandava
1Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Aurora, Colorado, USA. jeffrey.olson@uchsc.edu
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology
|January 13, 2006
Abstract:
Herein a new surgical technique used during pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling for macular hole surgery is reported. Perfluorocarbon liquid is used to tamponade the macular hole in order to prevent indocyanine green contact with the retinal pigment epithelium.
