This video demonstrates a routine trabeculectomy surgery in a 14-year-old young woman with a chronic angle closure glaucoma. A 2.5 mm scleral flap was fashioned in a square shape and a peripheral iridectomy was performed. The scleral flap and the conjunctiva were closed with sutures. The anterior chamber was well formed and the bleb was … Read more
This is a phacoemulsification surgery in a 7-year-old patient with a mature cataract. After the lens was aspirated, we found a tear on the posterior capsule and that may have been caused by trauma. That tear in the capsule may have caused the cataract. An IOL was implanted and the tear in the capsule was … Read more
This video demonstrates a routine Ahmed Valve Implant surgery through a fornix based peritomy. Dr. Brandt created a scleral tunnel for the tube to travel from the plate to the anterior chamber. Surgeon: Dr. James Brandt, University of California, Davis Transcript DR BRANDT: This is a gentleman in whom we’re going to place an Ahmed … Read more
This video demonstrates ahmed valve implant and phacoemulsification in a female patient with angle closure glaucoma, short axial length, big lens diameter an pseudoexfoliation. Dr. Alward implanted the Ahmed plate first, finished the phacoemulsification part of the procedure and then completed the tube implant. Surgeon: Dr. Wallace Alward, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Transcript DR … Read more
This video demonstrates a medial rectus recession surgery in a 15-year-old patient with esotropia. The MR recession was done in both eyes but only the right eye is demonstrated here. Dr. Wagner performed this MR recession through a limbal incision. Surgeon: Dr. Rudolph Wagner, Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ USA Transcript DR … Read more
This video demonstrates a routine phacoemulsification surgery in a 50-year-old man with soft cataract with a 1 piece foldable lens implantation. Surgeon: Dr. Michael Vrabec, University of Wisconsin, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA Transcript DR VRABEC: This patient is 50 plus years old and we’re going to be doing cataract surgery on him, small incision phacoemulsification with … Read more
This is a 12-year-old boy with a history of developmental delay and bilateral posterior polar cataracts. A lensectomy was done with a vitrector and an IOL was implanted in the bag. A Pars plana posterior capsulotomy and an anterior vitrectomy were performed because the patient may not cooperate for YAG capsulotomy at a later stage. … Read more
This video demonstrates a cataract surgery in a healthy child who presented with unilateral membranous congenital cataract. There may have been an unseen trauma in this child which could have caused cataract. A 3-piece IOL was inserted in the sulcus due to a big calcification plaque in the posterior capsule that needed pars plana vitrectomy … Read more