Fundus imaging with a nasal endoscope

• Published in: Indian journal of ophthalmology Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 69 - 70
• Main Authors: Shanmugam, P, Ramanjulu, Rajesh, Divyansh Mishra, K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Wolters Kluwer - Medknow Publications 01.01.2015; Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Algorithm; Antioxidant supplementation; Aortic insufficiency; arrhythmia; Bevacizumab; Bibliometrics; biomedical research; Brief Communications; Choroidal metastases; Chronic glaucoma patients; Ciliary body atrophy; Corneal thickness; cross-linking; Cup to disc ratio; Cytokines; diabetes mellitus; diabetic retinopathy; Diagnostic Imaging - instrumentation; Digital cameras; disc area; economic burden; Endoscopes; Epiretinal membrane; Fluorescein Angiography; free oxygen radicals test; Fundus examination; Fundus Oculi; glaucoma probability score; halogen light; Health aspects; Imaging; In vivo confocal microscopy; indirect ophthalmoscope; Intacs; intravitreal bevacizumab; iris atrophy; journal impact factor; keratoconus; keratocyte density; light emitting diode; macular edema; Malaria fever; Medical examination; menstrual cycle; microvascular occlusion; moorfields regression analysis; nasal endscope; nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy; normogram; Nose; ocular hypotony; ocular pulse amplitude; ophthalmic research; optical coherence tomography; pachymetry; paediatric fundus; photo-stress test; Physiological aspects; pigment epithelium-derived factor; Plasmodium falciparum; progressive hemifacial atrophy; proliferative retinopathy; prostaglandin analogues; reactive oxygen species; refractive surgery; refractory; Retina - pathology; Retinal Diseases - diagnosis; retinal vein occlusion; Sinus endoscopy; socioeconomic profile; stargardt disease; surgical research; transpupillary thermotherapy; triamcinolone acetonide; vascular endothelial growth factor; ventricular bigeminy; vitrectomy; India; nasal endscope; Imaging; paediatric fundus
• ISSN: 0301-4738; 1998-3689
• DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.151479

Wide field fundus imaging is needed to diagnose, treat, and follow-up patients with retinal pathology. This is more applicable for pediatric patients as repeated evaluation is a challenge. The presently available imaging machines though provide high definition images, but carry the obvious disadvantages of either being costly or bulky or sometimes both, which limits its usage only to large centers. We hereby report a technique of fundus imaging using a nasal endoscope coupled with viscoelastic. A regular nasal endoscope with viscoelastic coupling was placed on the cornea to image the fundus of infants under general anesthesia. Wide angle fundus images of various fundus pathologies in infants could be obtained easily with readily available instruments and without the much financial investment for the institutes.