Transcript Tectonic Epikeratoplasty

Professor Mikhail Krasnov
1929 – 2006
AOI Chair L
Obituary
Zbigniew Zagórski
Curriculum Vitae
• Prof. Krasnov was born on May 31, 1929, in
Shuya (a town in Ivanovskaya region, Russia)
•Graduated from Second Medical Institute in Moscow in 1953
•Training at Helmholz’ Institute of Ophthalmology in Moscow
Curriculum vitae
• Title of Professor in ophthalmology in 1964
• Director of the State Research Institute of
Eye Diseases of Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences in Moscow 1973 – 2002
Glaucoma mechanisms:
Precanalicular (trabecular)
versus
postcanalicular obstruction
(outflow channels – Ashton, 1955)
Glaucoma Research
• Sinusotomy
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1962
Full-thickness 8 mm scleral resection over Schlemm’s canal
Subconjunctival filtration
May be limited to deep scleral excision only
Could be combined with trabeculotomy
or trabeculectomy in cases of trabecular obstruction
• Externalization of Schlemm's canal (sinusotomy)
Br J Ophthalmol
1968
Non-penetrating surgery history
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Sinusotomy – Krasnov
Trabeculectomy – Cairns, Watson
Non-perforating trabeculectomy – Zimmerman
Penetrating deep sclerectomy – Fyodorov
Non-penetrating deep sclerectomy – Kozlov
1962
1968
1978
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1985
• NPDS with implant - Kozlov
1987
• Viscocanalostomy - Stegmann
1993
Glaucoma Research
• Microsurgery of glaucoma.
Indications and choice of techniques.
Am J Ophthalmol 1969
• Dual-observation gonioscope.
Am J Ophthalmol 1970
• Iridocyclo-retraction in narrow-angle
glaucoma.
Br J Ophthalmol 1971 Vestn Oftalmol 1973
Glaucoma Research
• Laseropuncture of anterior chamber angle
in glaucoma.
Am J Ophthalmol
1973
• Cairns JE, Krasnov MM: Iridocyclo-retraction
in glaucoma secondary to essential iris atrophy.
Br J Ophthalmol
1973
• Q-switched laser goniopuncture.
Arch Ophthalmol
1974
• Trabeculostomy and Trabeculocyclostomy in
combined form of glaucoma.
Vestn ophthalmol
1978
Miscellaneous
• Ultrasonic dacryocystorhinostomy.
Am J Ophthalmol. 1971
• Extrapupillary iris lens in aphakia.
Am J Ophthalmol. 1974
• Phacoemulsification of cataract with implantation
of an artificial lens
Vestn Oftalmol. 1975
• Possibilities offered by application of vitreophage
in ophthalmosurgery
Vestn Oftalmol. 1976
Miscellaneous
• Technique of implantation of extrapupillary iris
lens: 8 years of clinical experience BJO 1977
• Fluorescence angiography in laser therapy of
retinal vein thrombosis Vestn Oftalmol 1976
• Some significant events that occurred in
ophthalmology during the last 20 years
Vestn Oftalmol 2004
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Microsurgery, phacoemulsification of cataract,
Refractive surgery, soft contact lenses
Glaucoma research – optic neuropathy
Vitrectomy
• Over 400 publications (172 cited in Medline)
• Author of 6 books, including „Microsurgery of
Glaucoma” (Thieme 1977, Mosby 1979)
• Editor-in-chief of Vestnik Ophthalmologii
1966-2005
• Member of Editorial Boards of 5 foreign journals
including Annals of Ophthalmology
• 38 inventions patented in 13 countries
• 5x State and Governement prizes for scientific
achievements in USSR and Russia
• Prof. Krasnov was the first surgeon
implanting IOLs in the USSR
• The first surgeon in the world
applying laser in ophthalmology
Passed away on June 24, 2006 in Moscow
He will be remembered as one of the
most influencing Russian ophthalmologists
of the second half of XXth century