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  • August 16, 2025
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Episode 67: Throwing Away Wisdom – Maria Berrocal on Saving Proven Treatments for PDR and Retinal Detachment

Ahead of her Kreisig Award Lecture at the Euretina Congress in Paris, Maria Berrocal (Puerto Rico) joins Alistair Laidlaw (UK) to discuss why time-tested treatments like PRP and scleral buckling still matter. They explore the risks of over-reliance on anti-VEGF in proliferative diabetic retinopathy, the decline in buckle training, and how chandelier techniques could revive it.

Members can continue the conversation in the EURETINA Forum.

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