Haag-Streit Retina Symposium: It’s all about the image

Eye care practitioners and surgeons gathered in Manchester recently for a day of lectures and workshops aimed at keeping them up to date on OCT and other developing technologies in retinal imaging. Hats off to the organisers Haag-Streit UK for assembling a line-up of internationally renowned speakers and researchers (each introduced by HS-UK clinical training manager Grant Duncan, figure 1) for a day of education that refreshingly stayed clear of being overtly commercial.

OCT angiography

Enthusiasm for your subject is important for any presenter so who better to give an overview of the progress of OCT angiography (OCTA) than Moorfields consultant ophthalmologist Pearse Keane, a leading expert with this technology. The technique allows clear visualisation of the retinal vasculature and also the choriocapillaris and shows many smaller vessels that would not be seen by other methods. Indeed, OCTA ‘is one of the hottest topics in ophthalmology’ as cited in a recent editorial paper¹ and new developments, such as disc specific software (figure 2), steps to reduce artefacts, new ways of analysing data, are appearing all the time.