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ReviewAdvances in therapy2021

A Review of Robotic and OCT-Aided Systems for Vitreoretinal Surgery.

Elan Z Ahronovich, Nabil Simaan, Karen M Joos

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Review in Advances in therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Robotising vitreoretinal surgeries.Eye (London, England) · 2025
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  12. Exploring An External Approach to Subretinal Drug Delivery via Robot Assistance and B-Mode OCT.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation : ICRA : [proceedings]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elan Z AhronovichAdvanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications (ARMA) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7488-9568
Nabil SimaanAdvanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications (ARMA) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6125-3891
Karen M JoosVanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA. karen.joos@vumc.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6210-4126

Funding

Ocular Therapeutic Delivery Through Real-time Endoscopic B-scan OCT-guided Tools and Robotic AssistanceR01EY028133 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI JOOS, KAREN MARGARET, SIMAAN, NABIL · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
NEI NIH HHS 1R01EY028133NEI NIH HHS R01 EY028133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The introduction of the intraocular vitrectomy instrument by Machemer et al. has led to remarkable advancements in vitreoretinal surgery enabling the limitations of human physiologic capabilities to be reached. To overcome the barriers of perception, tremor, and dexterity, robotic technologies have been investigated with current advancements nearing the feasibility for clinical use. There are four categories of robotic systems that have emerged through the research: (1) handheld instruments with intrinsic robotic assistance, (2) hand-on-hand robotic systems, (3) teleoperated robotic systems, and (4) magnetic guidance robots. This review covers the improvements and the remaining needs for safe, cost-effective clinical deployment of robotic systems in vitreoretinal surgery.

Indexed as

OphthalmologyRoboticsRobotic Surgical ProceduresVitreoretinal SurgeryHumansVitrectomyImage-guided surgeryMedical roboticsMicromanipulatorOphthalmic surgeryOphthalmologyOptical coherence tomographyTelemanipulationVitreoretinal surgery

Identifiers

PMID33813718
PMCPMC8107166

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