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              Retinoschisis and detachment in high myopia: long scan with Optovue OCT. Contact Details: Email: parolinibarbara@gmail.com Cell Phone:...

Retinal detachment in high myopia is due to a combination of anteroposterior traction (due to the elongation of the sclera unmatched to the elongation of the retina) and of tangential tractions (due to the formation of epiretinal contraction. I will discuss why it is not possible to propose vitrectomy as the only choice, since vitrectomy is related to a high rate of retinal detachment relapse and since, in case of an associated macular...

Media not available due to technical recording problems. EVRS is very sorry for the inconvenience.   An introduction to the novel Zonular Capture Haptics technology for Accommodating-Disaccomodating IOL\’s and discuss the role of vitreoretinal surgery in the activation of the accommodation. Four generations of ZCH-based devices have been implanted in as many as nine rhesus monkey eyes at the Wisconsin National Primate Research...

Poster 1 Ana Isabel Pastor Vivas We report the case of a patient of 57 years, treated in ophthalmology for general review without referring eye clinic and as the only history of interest, hyperopia of +6.25 D in the right eye and +6.75 in eye left. On examination of fundus observed diffuse choroidal folds in both eyes. The patient’s visual acuity was 0.9. It performs complete study including ocular ultrasound, and cerebral and orbital...

Poster Hakyoung Kim To evaluate the presence of pathologic myopia could affect the result of macular hole surgery.

Poster 3 Miriam Garcia-Fernandez Advantages: To report the surgical results in a case of bilateral full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) for myopia. Methods: A 53-year-old Spanish woman who had undergone LASIK for the correction of myopia in her right and left eye (10 years ago) was referred to our department with a complaint of decreased visual acuity (VA) in both eyes. A complete ocular...