Image of the Month: The 2020 Collection
Every month, we share with you a special image captured by one of our contributors and readers. Here, you can browse the ones we published in 2020.
Use the arrows below to navigate between the images.
The Deep Sea.
The image shows a total retinal detachment (RD) with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), which can develop in untreated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) cases, as well as 5-10 percent of patients who underwent RD surgery.
Credit: Sim Sreyneang, Resident of Ophthalmology, University of Health Sciences, Cambodia.
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The first of four portraits of corneal researchers and surgeons, which make up the winning artwork of the European Eye Bank Association’s 2020 Photo & Art Contest.
Credit: Marie Burghardt, University Eye Hospital Halle, Germany.
Hard Graft.
The image shows the effects of pre-Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty (PDEK), with pre-op images at the top and post-op at the bottom.
Credit: Amar Agarwal, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital and Eye Research Centre, Chennai, India.
Stay at Home.
Intravitreal injections administered at the patient’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Credit: Anat Loewenstein, Chair, Division of Ophthalmology, Tel Aviv Medical Center; Vice dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
From Fundus with Love.
The image – a fundus view of an eye with primary intraocular lymphoma (PIOL) – shows alterations at the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) level, with fine to coarse clumping of pigment epithelium.
Credit: Maselos Stelios, Ophthalmologist, Ocular Inflammation Medical Center, Greece.
Black Hole Sun.
This image shows iris angiography of ocular ischemia secondary to stenosis of the left carotid artery.
Credit: Julien Bouleau, CHU Lille, Clinique d'Ophtalmologie, Lille, France.
Clash of the Titans.
"Sometimes something artistic comes from an unexpected place and slaps you in the face," says Richard Koplin, Co-Director of the Cataract Service at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mt. Sinai, NY, USA. He has been a clinician and inventor of ophthalmic diagnostic and surgical devices for 30 years.
As he describes it, “I was adjusting the operating microscope in preparation of initiating a routine cataract procedure, when I was stopped in my tracks by the odd presentation of the conjunctival melanosis at the limbus in this case. It took very little imagination to conjure up two large and formidable bison butting heads."
Under the Hood.
The image shows Gundersen conjunctival hooding flap (partial) in an impending perforated corneal ulcer.
Credit: Channdarith Kith, Resident of Ophthalmology, University of Health Sciences, Cambodia.
Uneven Break.
The image shows angioid streaks – fluorescein angiography irregular radiations deep to the retina.
Credit: Denice Barsness, Technical Director, Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center at California Pacific Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, San Francisco, California, USA.
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