European VitreoRetinal Society a certain philosophy

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xudq1s Background: Genuine confusion in the terminology of diabetic macular edema (DME) classification has existed for a long time. Only the definitions: focal versus diffuse DME and clinically significant macular edema (CSME) have been available since the ETDRS study. This is a far from satisfactory way to define many types of DME in the era of spectral OCT. Methods: OCT records of all DME cases in a...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuk2n3 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuk3gz Purpose: To understand the postoperative behaviour of the macula after ERM surgery. Methods: Retrospective analysis of functional (visual) and anatomical (OCT) changes of cases with epimacular membrane following surgery was performed in long term. Anatomical changes for each individual case were followed with OCT. The percentage of cases getting normal foveal...

Purpose: To document the prognosis of eyes with neovascular AMD associated with any pigment epithelial detachment (PED) during the course of anti VEGF treatment. Methods: The medical records of 331 eyes with neovascular AMD treated with intravitreal anti VEGFs were retrospectively errate for the presence of PED. The visual and anatomical (OCT) prognosis of the cases and complication rates after treatment were determined. Results: PED was...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn78tq http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn78u6 Sengul Ozdek (Ankara, Turkey) Advantages: PPV with ILM peeling +/- laser for the treatment of optic pit related macular serous detachment. Effectiveness / Safety: Case 1 is a 68y old female with optic pit related macular detachment. Ophthalmic examination revealed a visual acuity (VA) of CF at 3m. Following PPV with ILM peeling and SF6 (20%) gas tamponade,...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn6rl7 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn853l Sengul Ozdek, Fulya Yaylacioglu (Ankara, Turkey) Advantages: Passive removal of 1000cs silicone oil with 23-G transconjunctival system is an easy and cheap method, which also allows additional vitreoretinal, maneuvers after removal. Methods: 91 eyes of 91 patients, enrolled in our clinic between January 2008 and April 2011, were studied retrospectively. After...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo99di http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo9yye Sengul Ozdek*, Erdem Yuksel (Ankara, Turkey) Advantages: Early chorioretinectomy in eyes with perforating eye injury may increase the globe survival rate. Methods: Reports of consecutive eyes with severe perforating injuries treated with chorioretinectomy were examined for surgical technique, VA, formation of postoperative proliferative tissue, PVR, and...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2010/congress/Age-Related-Macular-Degeneration.flv Sengul C. Ozdek, Sibel Eryigit, Berati Hasanreisoglu (Ankara, Turkey) Purpose: To document the incidence of RPE tears after anti-VEGF therapy. Methods: The reports of patients with wet ARMD treated with anti-VEGFs were reviewed for occurrence of RPE tears. Lesion type, the type of anti-VEGF used and prognosis after RPE tear were analyzed. Results: A total of 538...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2010/congress/Age-Related-Macular-Degeneration.flv Sengul C. Ozdek, Sibel Eryigit, Berati Hasanreisoglu (Ankara, Turkey) Purpose: To determine if PRN Bevacizumab can maintain the visual acuity (VA) gained with loading Ranibizumab for wet ARMD. Methods: The reports of patients with wet ARMD treated with 3 monthly Ranibizumab followed by PRN Bevacizumab were reviewed retrospectively. VA and central foveal thickness...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2010/congress/Vascular-Pathologies-in-Young-Patients.flv Sengul Ozdek (Ankara, Turkey) Advantages: Sclerectomy surgery is easy and effective in eyes with exudative RD secondary to nanophthalmos. Methods: Four quadrant deep sclerectomy and sclerostomy with mitomycin C was applied to 6 eyes of 3 patients with exudative RD secondary to nanophthalmos. Effectiveness / Safety: Exudative RD resolved quickly in 4 eyes...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2009/congress/When-Re-Treating.flv Authors: Sengul Ozdek, Cuneyt Ozmen, Berati Hasanreisoglu, Ankara, Turkey Advantages: A new activity scoring (AS) for assessment of the neovascular ARMD activity is defined. AS supplies standardization for the assessment of the lesion activity after anti-VEGF therapy. Methods: 52 eyes with neovascular ARMD treated with anti- VEGF agents were involved. The AS is based on 1) fluid...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2009/congress/When-Re-Treating.flv Authors: Sengul Ozdek, Cuneyt Ozmen, Berati Hasanreisoglu, Ankara, Turkey Advantages: To define the nonresponders of CNV to anti-VEGF treatment clearly so that unnecessary treatments with a costly agent can be prevented. Methods: A mini questionnaire with 7 items was send to the retina specialist in Turkey via e-mail. The questions were related with the definition of...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2008/congress/My-Way-of-Assessment-of-Neovascular-ARMD-Avtivity.flv Sengul Ozdek Advantages: In the era of anti-VEGF treatment of choroidal neovascular lesions (CNV) it is becoming more and more important to assess the activity of the lesion to decide for additional treatments. Here I present an activity scoring system which can easily be applied to all of the CNV lesions. Methods: I use 5 parameters to decide on...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2008/congress/My-Silicone-Oil-Removal-Technique-Both-in-Phakic-and-Aphakic-Patients-and-in-Patients-with-Cataract.flv Sengul Ozdek Advantages: These sutureless techniques are easy to perform for the surgeons and comfortable for the patients Methods: In pkakic patients: After a 23G 3-port pars plana entry silicone oil is drained passively from the superior trockars. It takes 5 minutes. You can also continue with...

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Sengül Özdek, Umut Bahçeci, Gökhan Gürelik, Bahri Aydın, Berati Hasanreisoglu Aim: To evaluate prospectively the results of posterior subtenon (PSTT) and intravitreal (IVT) triamcinolone injections in diabetic macular edema refractory to conventional grid laser photocoagulation. Material and methods: Eyes with resistant clinically significant macular edema had complete ophthalmic examination including FA and OCT before and 1st, 3rd...

Alper Erdinç, MD, Sengül Özdek, MD, Gökhan Gürelik, MD, Bahri Aydın, MD, Umut Bahçeci, MD, Berati Hasanreisoglu, MD, Gazi University, School of Medicine, Ophthalmology Department, Ankara, Turkey Purpose: To compare the optical coherence tomographic (OCT) features with clinical and fluorescein angiographic (FA) findings in patients with diabetic retinopathy. Methods: In a retrospective study ophthalmologic examination together with...