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University of Cincinnati, Department of Ophthalmology

“The Department of Ophthalmology is the preeminent teaching and research center in the Tristate region (southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana.) The expertise of our faculty over the entire spectrum of ophthalmic sub-specialties makes us the regional center of choice of patients and health care providers. Our faculty members have diverse research interests. Their clinical and basic science investigations regularly yield findings and observations that advance the science and art of ophthalmology and lead to improved patient care.” – From University of Cincinnati, Department of Ophthalmology  

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Fundus photo depicting epiretinal membrane with lamellar macular hole. Image courtesy of Robert A. Sisk, MD, FACS, Cincinnati Eye Institute.

Improve Macular Hole Surgery with Optical Coherence Tomography

A case study on the use of intraoperative OCT during macular hole surgery for pediatric lamellar macular hole repair and how it provides valuable real-time information.
Diffuse retinal degeneration with relative macular sparing.

Ophthalmic Gene Therapy Subretinal Injection

Case study on the use of intraoperative OCT for Leber congenital amaurosis macular repair and ophthalmic gene therapy subretinal injection.

Intraoperative OCT-Assisted Surgical Management of Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is a plague to patients and their surgeons after recent rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD). Despite excellent initial surgical outcomes, it is the most common…
Completed Bleb, courtesy of Robert A. Sisk, MD, FACS, Cincinnati Eye Institute.

Intraoperative OCT-Assisted Gene Therapy

Gene augmentation therapy is a method of ocular gene transfer for autosomal recessive or X-linked retinal dystrophies when there is insufficient functional protein manifesting as genetic disease.…
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