Photo of Tarek S. Hassan taken at Retina World Congress 2025
Tarek S. Hassan, MD, a professor of ophthalmology at Oakland University, presents a groundbreaking approach to managing proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) through serial relaxing retinotomies.
He shared these insights with the Ophthalmology Times team on site at the Retina World Congress 2025 meeting, which was held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from May 8-11, 2025.
Note: The following conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Ophthalmology Times: You are presenting on a new approach to managing PVR at this meeting. Can you explain this process and how it differs from the more standard approach?
Tarek S. Hassan, MD: Here at the Retina World Congress, I was given the opportunity to present a series of patients and a concept that we’ve been working on…