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Lasers

The document discusses various laser treatments used in ophthalmology, including procedures for sealing leaky blood vessels and treating conditions like diabetic macular edema and retinal tears. It explains the properties of laser light, its classifications, and delivery systems, highlighting the advantages of lasers over ordinary light. Additionally, it details specific types of lasers, such as green, argon, yellow, and red lasers, and their applications in treating eye conditions.

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Lasers

The document discusses various laser treatments used in ophthalmology, including procedures for sealing leaky blood vessels and treating conditions like diabetic macular edema and retinal tears. It explains the properties of laser light, its classifications, and delivery systems, highlighting the advantages of lasers over ordinary light. Additionally, it details specific types of lasers, such as green, argon, yellow, and red lasers, and their applications in treating eye conditions.

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Lasers in Ophthalmology

Laser treatments
• Lasers to seal up leaky blood
vessels
• Focal laser for diabetic macular
edema
• Laser for macro aneurysm
• Laser for wet macular degeneration
(rarely done today)
• Lasers to destroy damaged retina to
protect healthy retina
• Pan retinal photocoagulation for
proliferative diabetic retinopathy or
sickle retinopathy
• Laser to create an adhesion when
the retina is torn or detached
• Laser for retinal tear
Basic of LASER
LASER is an acronym. It stands for
Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation.
LASER is a bladeless surgery of
the eye.
The transparency of the front part
of the eye, the cornea, allows light
such as LASER to reach almost all
the tissues of the eye.
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LASER Vs. Ordinary light
Laser Ordinary light

Monochromatic

Directional

Coherent
Properties of LASER Light
 Monchromatic - emit only one wave length
 Coherence - all in step with one another and
improves focusing
 Polarized - in one plane it’s easy to pass
through media
 Colimated - in one direction & non spreading
 High energy - Intensity measured by Watts J/s
 Laser light can deposit a lot of energy within a
small area hence it is more hazardous than
ordinary light
 Laser Power more than 5 mw is harmful to eye
Block Diagram of LASER
Classification of LASER
Solid State – Ruby, Nd.Yag,
Erbium Yag
Gas – Ion, Argon, Krpton, He-
Neon, CO2
Metal Vapour – CU, Gold
Dye – Rhodamine
Excimer (excited dimer)– Argon
Fluoride, Krypton Fluoride,
Krypton Chloride
Diode – Gallium-Aluminum
Spectrum of Light
Delivery Systems
Trans pupillary:
◦ Slit Lamp
◦ Indirect Ophthalmoscope
Trans scleral:
◦ Contact (Glaucoma)
◦ Non Contact
Endophotocoagulation:
Green Laser
2xNd:YAG Laser(532nm) Pulsed Laser
to treat posterior capsular
opacification after cataract surger
y
to create a peripheral iridotomy
in
patients with narrow angles or
angle-closure glaucoma.
treatment of retinal vascular
abnormalities and choroidal
neovascularization
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Argon Laser (488-514)
Blue green-Green

• Retinal Photocoagulation
• Iridotomy
• Trabeculectomy
• Vitreoretinal surgery
• Choroid/Retinal tumors

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Yellow Laser
Wavelength 577 nm Diode Laser

Treating macular degeneration


Red Laser
Wavelength 810 nm

Red Laser has more penetrating


power.
So it can be used to treat Choroid

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