METHOD OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NEOVASCULAR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A61F9/07 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, specifically to ophthalmology. For surgical treatment of age-related macular degeneration, subtotal vitrectomy is performed, mechanical removal of pathological subretinal content, flap cutting including retinal pigment epithelium and vascular membrane, movement of retina pigment epithelium – choroid under macular retina and filling vitreous chamber with silicone oil. Before flap cutting of the retinal pigment epithelium – vascular membrane with the proximal end of the cut-out flap is connected to the vascular membrane primary tissue, a peripheral retinotomy of the retina is performed 270° in meridians with 4³⁰ up to 1³⁰ for the right eye and/or with 10³⁰ up to 8³⁰ for left eye and the retina is turned towards the optic nerve to provide free access to the surgical manipulations area under the retina.

EFFECT: method enables solving the problem of providing perfusion of the graft to be replaced with retinal pigment epithelium – vascular membrane for normalizing the metabolism in the macular retina and improving the visual eye restoration.

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