Retina

Comprehensive Factual Review
Tuesday 3/18/08 - 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Section # Tu-201

Course Instructors

Module 1: Fundamental/Diagnostic approaches & Congenital/Hereditory Diseases

Gerald Fishman MD & Lawernce Ulanski, MD

Basic anatomy: vitreous, retina, RPE, Bruch’s membrane, Choroid

            Diagnostic approaches: FA, ICG, OCT, SLO, Retinal thickness analyzers

            Retinal Physiology & Psychophysics: ERG, EOG, VEP

 

            Congenital and Stationary Retinal disease : achromatopsia, CSNB, Fundus albipunctatus, Oguchi

            Hereditory disease: RP, Leber amaurosis, cone.cone-rod dystrophy

                                            Macular dystrophies: Stargardt, Best Vitelliform, Pattern, Sorsby Macular

                                            Choroidal dystrophies: Choroideremia, Gyrate atrophy

                                            Viteroretinal: X-linked Retinoschisis, Goldmann-Favre Syndrome

 

Module 2: Acquired diseases affecting the macula

Michael Blair, MD

CSR, AMD, OHS, idiopathic CNV, angioid streaks, pathologic myopia

            ERM, macular hole

            Valsalva retinopathy, Purtscher retinopathy, Terson syndrome

            Relevant clinical trials: AREDS, CAPT, TAP, VIP, SST

 

Module 3: Retinal Vascular diseases

Norman Blair, MD

Hypertensive retinopathy, Diabetic Retinopathy (NPDR, PDR, ME)

            Sickle cell Retinopathy, Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)

            BRVO, CRVO

            BRAO, CRAO, Ocular ischemic syndrome

            Parafoveal (juxtafoveal) retinal telangiectasis, arterial macroaneurysms

            Phakomatosis (von Hippel-Lindeau, congenital AVM, cavernous hemangioma)

            Relevant clinical trials: ETDRS, DCCT, UKPDS, DRS, DRVS

 

Module 4: Choroidal disease & Chorioretinal inflammation

Lawrence Ulanski, MD

BDUMP, choroidal hemangioma, uveal effusion syndrome

            Noninfectious – White dot syndromes : APMPPE, MEWDS, MCP, PIC

   Serpiginous choroidopathy, Birdhot retinochoroidopathy

                                       Others: AZOOR, Sacroid, Behcets, VKH, pars planitis, intraocular lymphoma

            Infectious – Endogenous endophthalmitis, TB, Cat-scratch, herpetic, Toxoplasma, DUSN, syphilitic

                                    Toxocara, CMV

 

Module 5: Peripheral Retinal abnormalities, RD & Vitreous diseases

Michael Shapiro, MD

Retinal breaks – traumatic, PVD

            Lesions predisposing to RD: Lattice degeneration, Viteroretinal tufts, Meridonal folds, Ora Bays

            Lesions not predisposing to RD: Paving-stone (cobblestone), RPE hyperplasia/hypertrophy, Cystoid

            Prophylactic treatment of retinal breaks (symptomatic/asymptomatic)

            Retinal detachment – Rhegmatogenous, Tractional, Exudative

 

            Vitreous diseases: Developmental – Tunica Vasculosa Lentis, PHPV

            Hereditory hyaloidoretinopathies – Jansen disease, Wagner disease

            FEVR, Astreoid hyalosis, Cholesterolosis, Amyloidosis, Vitreous hge