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PUBLIC HEALTH, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND NUTRITION
OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY AND EYE CARE
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Archives of General Internal Medicine | ISSN: 2591-7951 | Volume 2
Ingrid Kreissig, Arch Gen Intern Med 2018, Volume 2 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C4-010
RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY:
STARING WITH GONIN AND ITS
SUBSEQUENT CHANGES
T he evolution of the surgical techniques for reattaching a primary retinal
detachment will be analysed fromGonin in 1930 up to present. Publications
about the various options for repair are reviewed. There had been a change
from a surgery of the entire retinal detachment to a surgery limited to the area
of the break and a change from extraocular to an intraocular approach. In the
beginning of the 21st century four major surgical techniques for repair of a
primary retinal detachment haveevolved. But all of themhavestill onenominator
in common: to find and close the retinal break which caused the detachment,
and which would cause a redetachment, if not sealed off sufficiently. To find
and close sufficiently the break(s) in a primary retinal detachment has been
accompanied the efforts of retinal detachment surgeons during the past
85 years. However, today four postulates must be fulfilled for an adequate
and optimal retinal detachment surgery: the retinal reattachment should be
obtained with the first operation, the procedure should have a minimum of
morbidity, not harbour secondary complications jeopardizing regained visual
acuity and be performed on a small budget in local anaesthesia.
Biography
Ingrid Kreissig is currently a Professor at Depart-
ment of Ophthalmology Univ. Mannheim-Heidel-
berg, Mannheim, Germany. She is also serving as
Adjunct Professor at New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, New York. Her specialization in-
cludes, posterior segment of the eye: St. Gall/
Switzerland, Bonn/Germany, and New York Hospi-
tal-Cornell Medical Center/USA. During 1979-2000,
she has been the Chairman of Univ. Tuebingen/
Germany. She has published more than 404 pa-
pers, those are been published in national and in-
ternational journals of ophthalmology, basically on
topics such as surgery of retinal detachment with
long-term follow-up of anatomic and functional
results, cryopexy histology, tumors, AMD, diabetic
retinopathy, and intravitreal pharmacotherapy. She
has also published many books.
Ingrid Kreissig
University of Heidelberg, Germany