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The only patient of the 5 in whom this technique was not feasible was a patient with darkly pigmented fundus, because there is reduced transscleral illumination through darkly pigmented eyes.2 Although not referenced in the article, our group previously published this technique in 2015 in Ophthalmic...

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Published inOphthalmic surgery, lasers & imaging Vol. 53; no. 12; pp. 718 - 719
Main Authors Pimentel, Miguel-Cruz, Felfeli, Tina, Mandelcorn, Efrem
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Slack, Inc 01.12.2022
SLACK INCORPORATED
Subjects
Eye
Head-up displays
Humans
Illumination
Lasers
Ophthalmology
Public health
Retina
Retinal Detachment - surgery
Retrospective Studies
Sclera
Scleral Buckling - methods
Surgery
Transillumination - methods
Visualization
Vitrectomy - methods
Ontario
Toronto Ontario Canada
Canada
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Summary:The only patient of the 5 in whom this technique was not feasible was a patient with darkly pigmented fundus, because there is reduced transscleral illumination through darkly pigmented eyes.2 Although not referenced in the article, our group previously published this technique in 2015 in Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging Retina.3 To compare their device to our original description of this technique, we recently used the Todorich Sleeve Illuminated Scleral Depressor (Vortex Surgical) to determine if it offered any advantage over our approach used over the past 8 years. In the discussion section,1 the authors highlighted two advantages of the adaptor sleeve: the decreased risk of perforation and the enhanced visualization because the illumination power can be increased safely. 10.3928/23258160-20150521-10 PMID: 26057762 From the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (MP, TF, EM), The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (TF) and the Department of Ophthalmology, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (MP, EM).
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ISSN:2325-8160
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DOI:10.3928/23258160-20220920-02