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The vitreous humour is a clear gel positioned behind the iris (coloured part) and the lens, and in front of the retina (back of the eye). Vitrectomy is the surgical removal of the vitreous humour, a procedure needed to allow ophthalmic surgeons to diagnose and treat underlying disease in the eye.
This new edition provides a step by step guide to vitrectomy surgeries. Beginning with a description of the anatomy and physiology, the role of optical coherence tomography and anaesthesia, the following chapters discuss vitrectomy procedures for different ocular diseases and disorders.
Written by a recognised Spanish author and editor team, the second edition includes new chapters, more than 350 full colour images and illustrations, and a DVD demonstrating vitrectomy surgery.
Key points
- Step by step guide to vitrectomy surgery
- Includes new chapters
- Features more than 350 colour images and illustrations
- Includes DVD
- Spanish author and editor team
- Previous edition published in 2006
Jose J Martinez-Toldos MD PhD
University General Hospital, Elche, Spain
Jairo E Hoyos MD PhD
Physician of Ophthalmology, Instituto Oftalmologico Hoyos, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
- Chapter 1: Surgical Anatomy
- Chapter 2: Presurgery Examination
- Chapter 3: Vitrectomy and Optical Coherence Tomography
- Chapter 4: Anesthesia
- Chapter 5: Instrumentation
- Chapter 6: Basic Vitrectomy
- Chapter 7: Pars Plana Lensectomy
- Chapter 8: Basic Endoscopic Vitrectomy
- Chapter 9: Minimal Incision Vitrectomy Surgery: Twenty- Three, Twenty-Five and Twenty-Seven Gauge
- Chapter 10: Vitrectomy in Anterior Segment Surgery Complications
- Chapter 11: Eye Trauma Vitrectomy
- Chapter 12: Basic Vitrectomy in Diabetic Retinopathy
- Chapter 13: Macular Surgery
- Chapter 14: Vitrectomy for Retinal Detachment with and without Proliferative Vitreoretinipathy
- Chapter 15: Current Indications of Antiangiogenics in Vitrectomy
- Chapter 16: Use of Sustained Drug Release Implants in Vitrectomized Eyes
- Chapter 17: Enzymatic Vitrectomy
- Chapter 18: Posterior Vitrectomy Complications