Flashes and Floaters - Whats New in Management of PVD

With incresing awareness of the symtomatic patient to have local ocular or systemic disease, the primary care practitioner should appreciate the basis of vitreous detachment as well as its consequences and potentail devatating effects.  The objective is to ensure that attendees are able to appreciate the clinical appearance of the normal aging vitreous as well as complications and distingush them from problems that are of non-ocular origin.

Speakers:

• Semes, Leo P

Key learning points:

1. Appreciate how ocular development helps in understanding the genesis of floaters.
2. Understand the natural history of vitreous aging in the genesis of floaters.
3. Appreciate clinical examinationfor complications of posterior vitreous detachment -posterior pole/periphery.
4. Recognise the (rare) complications and management.
5. Appreciate other etiologies for PVD that can cause entopsia and photopsia.

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