European VitreoRetinal Society a certain philosophy

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2010/congress/Age-Related-Macular-Degeneration-2.flv Ivan Fiser (Prague, Czech Republic) Advantages: 1. We find useful to carefully follow up eyes with atrophic AMD and macular drusen. Not only the drusen, but also the fading of drusen, and the conversion to geographic atrophy can be a prologue to CNV. The combination of OCT and FA, together with other usual examination methods, can distinguish between...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2010/congress/Age-Related-Macular-Degeneration-2.flv Richard Luscan (Paris, France) Advantages: There is extensive literature about the vascular component of the etiopathogenesis of AMD. Lutty brought histopathological evidence that in wet AMD, choriocapillaris (CC) disturbances precede RPE atrophy (2009). Bonnet was the first to perform Vortex Vein Occlusion (VVO) for wet forms of AMD in 17 human eyes (1983)....

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2008/congress/Vortex-Vein-Occlusion-as-a-Treatment-for-AMD:-Surgical-and-Technical-Procedure,-Principle-of-Action,-Indications-and-Results.flv Richard Luscan Purpose: Report of a six year experience on this topic, including about one hundred procedures upon all various forms of AMD. Introduction: Vortex veins occlusion procedure was used to inflate the choriocapillaris tone, known to be deflated or with irregular...

http://www.evrs.eu/medias/2005/congress/Rheopheresis-to-Eradicate-the-Drusen-CNV-Cascade.swf Frank Koch, MD, 1, Reiner Klingel, MD, 2, Cordula Fassbender, MD, 2 – 1 University Eye Clinic, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2 Apheresis Research Institute, Cologne, Germany Purpose: To update the current results of rheopheresis. Methods: Elimination of excact defined spectrum of high-molecular proteins from the blood circulation. The rheopheresis is...