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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

MDE 8552 Retinal Elective


Credit Hours: var.

Students will evaluate patients with diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, senile macular degeneration, retinal detachments, intraocular tumors, & uveitis using direct & indirect ophthalmoscopy & slit lamp examination of the fundus. Students will learn the interpretation of fundus fluorescein angiography & ultrasonography. They will participate in argon & krypton laser photocoagulation, intraocular injections, scleral buckles, vitrectomies, & radiation plaque therapy. The student is required to present & discuss a patient they have evaluated during the course at the departmental case conference.

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Co-Prerequisite(s): None

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