CME Credit for ICG

Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit is available for ICG Angiography through Manhattan Eye Ear & Throat Hospital, a subsidiary of Lenox Hill Hospital.

Course Title: Indocyanine Green Angiography - Technique and Interpretation

Format: CD-ROM (Windows & Mac). Click here to get the free CD.

Download: the CME quiz answer sheet and course evaluation. (PDF format, will open with Adobe Acrobat Reader). If you would prefer to receive the answer sheet and course evaluation by mail, please contact Namrata Saroj, O.D., CME coordinator for this course.

Authors: K. Bailey Freund, M.D. Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, M.D. Dennis A. Orlock, C.R.A.

Course Description: With recent advances in digital imaging, indocyanine green angiography (ICG), a technique that has been available for over 20 years, has now become a useful clinical tool. Technologic advances in fundus cameras have created new opportunities to investigate the dynamics and pathologic choroidal circulation using this technique.

The CD-ROM "Indocyanine Green Angiography: Technique and Interpretation" was conceived as a way to teach practicing ophthalmologists and ophthalmic photographers the skills needed to acquire and interpret ICG angiograms. A schematic approach to interpretation, similar to that used in the early days of fluorescein angiography, has been adopted to explain the mechanisms of hyper- and hypofluorescence. These concepts are illustrated in an interactive way through numerous cases.

Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Discuss the use of ICG for imaging the choroidal circulation.
• Explain mechanisms which produce ICG hyper and hypofluorescence in the fundus.
• Explain the ICG angiographic findings of polypoidal-choroidal neovascularization and retinal angiomatous proliferation.
• Use ICG as a diagnostic clinical tool.

Disclosure Policy Statement: Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital relies upon faculty participants in its CME programs to provide educational information that is objective and as free of bias as possible. In this spirit, and in accordance with the guidelines of the program sponsor, faculty participants are expected to indicate any commercial relationship that might be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest.

Accreditation: The Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital (A subsidiary of Lenox Hill Hospital) is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing education for physicians. The Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital designates this continuing medical education activity for 5 hours in Category I towards the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Questions? Contact Namrata Saroj, O.D., CME coordinator for this course

• e-mail: nsaroj@retinal-research.org
• Phone: (212) 605-3777
• Fax: (212) 605-3795
• Mail:

Namrata Saroj, O.D.
LuEsther T. Mertz Retinal Research Center
210 East 64th St. 8th Floor
New York, NY 10021

 

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