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Laser Treatment of Submacular Hemorrhages

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Submacular hemorrhage (SMH) remains one of the most vision threatening complications of the retinal and choroidal vascular disorders [1].

Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk and Stanislav Saksonov are authors contributed equally to this work.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Eye Clinic, Justus–Liebig-University Giessen, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk

  2. Karl Landsteiner Institute for Retinal Research and Imaging, Vienna, Austria

    Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Donetsk National Medical University, Donetsk, Ukraine

    Stanislav Saksonov

  4. Ophthalmological Clinic “Center Oka”, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Stanislav Saksonov

  5. Center for Eye Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo University Hospital and nstitute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Goran Petrovski

  6. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Split School of Medicine and University Hospital Centre, Split, Croatia

    Goran Petrovski

  7. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland

    Andrzej Grzybowski

  8. Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Poznan, Poland

    Andrzej Grzybowski

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  2. Ventura County Retinal Vitreous Medical Group, Ventura, CA, USA

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  3. Vitreoretinal Surgeon and Clinical Lead, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Case 1: performance of two Nd: YAG laser retinotomies on an eye with submacular hemorrhage (MOV 27394 kb)

Case 2: performance of single Nd: YAG laser retinotomy on an eye with submacular hemorrhage (MOV 147131 kb)

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Lytvynchuk, L., Saksonov, S., Petrovski, G., Grzybowski, A. (2023). Laser Treatment of Submacular Hemorrhages. In: Grzybowski, A., Luttrull, J.K., Kozak, I. (eds) Retina Lasers in Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25779-7_16

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