Month: August 2010

“Fabry’s enthusiasm for anatomy may have been triggered by his survival of the plague as a child”, reports Dr. Wolfgang Antweiler, Head of the Wilhelm Fabry Museum in Hilden. After his apprenticeship as a barber, the former grammar school pupil worked as an assistant for highly reputed court surgeon Cosmas Slot in Düsseldorf. “There he …

Wilhelm Fabry – Surgeon, Inventor, and Publicist Read More »

For what indications is the bi-manual technique a particular advantage? The technique is especially useful for treating proliferative membrane growth, macular holes, and diabetic macular edema. I have also had excellent experience using this technique for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), where there is a proliferation of abnormal vessels in the retina. A mild version of …

State-of-the-Art Microscope Enables New Vitreoretinal Surgery Technique Read More »