Poster Chi Wai Tsang Advantages: No extra instruments or material are needed to hold the floating retina. This maneuver allows safer removal of the subretinal blood clot and choroidal neovascular complex, control of bleeding and both RPE graft harvest and transferral to the recipient site. The fixation can spare one hand which may need to manipulate the floating retina, otherwise. Methods: A 63-year-old woman presented with 1-month...
Read MorePedunculated choroidal – RPE Patch Transplantation in Severe Neovascular Macular Degeneration
Advantages: To perform an autologous RPE graft in a case of fibrotic CNV leaving a link between the patch and the original site of it. Methods: Standard vitrectomy with induction of retinal detachment and retinectomy of the 180° temporal retina; removal of fibrotic subfoveal fibrotic membrane, preparation of a choroidal patch to move on the macular area leaving a part connected with the original site of choroid. Effectiveness / Safety:...
Read MoreCNV in AMD
Autologous RPE and choroid transplantation for the treatment of CNV in AMD will be presented in details.
Read MorePPV with Choroid-RPE Patch Graft for Massive Hemorrhage Due to Neovascular ARMD
This is a video of a patient with age related macular degeneration who had a macular scar in his right eye and a new subretinal massive hemorrhage causing hemorrhagic retinal detachment in his left eye which used to be his better eye. A cataract surgery combined with pars plana vitrectomy with 360 retinotomy, removal of subretinal hemorrhage, clots and choroidal neovascular membrane, and choroid-retina pigment epithelial patch graft was...
Read MoreAutologous Transplantation of RPE & Choroid for Wet AMD: Functional Results and Prognostic Factors After a Long-term Follow-up
Advantages: Choroidal neovascularization in age related macular degeneration (AMD), non-responder to standard care, might be treated with autologous transplantation of retinal pigment epithelium and choroid (PATCH). The purpose was to define prognostic criteria for this surgery, to improve the result. Methods: Thirty eyes underwent PATCH surgery. Follow-up was 36 months. Patients received ETDRS, OCT scan and fluorescein and indocyanine...
Read MoreRetina Transplantation with Masoud Nano-silver Complex Balloon and Amacrine Stem Cell
Advantages: For treatment and improvements in visual acuity in patients with maculopathy and macula degenerations or other Macula pathology diseases with new techniques and standard material Masoud Nano complex balloon. Methods: After vitrectomy and submacular injection BSS (0.5 ml) separated macula with Masoud macula forceps (Fig 1A). After injected donor macula insist of macula damage will be injected through pars plana into the...
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