1. Professor Mikhail Krasnov 1929 – 2006 AOI Chair L
Obituary
Zbigniew Zagórski

2. Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Krasnov was born on May 31, 1929, in Shuya (a town in Ivanovskaya region, Russia)
Graduated from Second Medical Institute in Moscow in 1953
Training at Helmholz’ Institute of Ophthalmology in Moscow

3. Curriculum vitae Title of Professor in ophthalmology in 1964
Director of the State Research Institute of Eye Diseases of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow 1973 – 2002

4. Glaucoma mechanisms:
Precanalicular (trabecular) versus postcanalicular obstruction (outflow channels – Ashton, 1955)

5. Glaucoma Research Sinusotomy 1962
Full-thickness 8 mm scleral resection over Schlemm’s canal
Subconjunctival filtration
May be limited to deep scleral excision only
Could be combined with trabeculotomy or trabeculectomy in cases of trabecular obstruction
Externalization of Schlemm's canal (sinusotomy)
Br J Ophthalmol

6. Non-penetrating surgery - history
Sinusotomy – Krasnov
Trabeculectomy – Cairns, Watson
Non-perforating trabeculectomy – Zimmerman 1978
Penetrating deep sclerectomy – Fyodorov 1982
Non-penetrating deep sclerectomy – Kozlov 1985
NPDS with implant - Kozlov
Viscocanalostomy - Stegmann

7. Glaucoma Research Microsurgery of glaucoma.
Indications and choice of techniques. Am J Ophthalmol 1969
Dual-observation gonioscope. Am J Ophthalmol 1970
Iridocyclo-retraction in narrow-angle glaucoma. Br J Ophthalmol 1971 Vestn Oftalmol 1973

8. Glaucoma Research
Laseropuncture of anterior chamber angle in glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol
Cairns JE, Krasnov MM: Iridocyclo-retraction in glaucoma secondary to essential iris atrophy. Br J Ophthalmol
Q-switched laser goniopuncture. Arch Ophthalmol
Trabeculostomy and Trabeculocyclostomy in combined form of glaucoma.
Vestn ophthalmol

9. Miscellaneous Ultrasonic dacryocystorhinostomy. Am J Ophthalmol. 1971
Extrapupillary iris lens in aphakia. Am J Ophthalmol. 1974
Phacoemulsification of cataract with implantation of an artificial lens Vestn Oftalmol. 1975
Possibilities offered by application of vitreophage in ophthalmosurgery Vestn Oftalmol. 1976

10. Miscellaneous
Technique of implantation of extrapupillary iris lens: 8 years of clinical experience BJO 1977
Fluorescence angiography in laser therapy of retinal vein thrombosis Vestn Oftalmol 1976
Some significant events that occurred in ophthalmology during the last 20 years Vestn Oftalmol 2004
Microsurgery, phacoemulsification of cataract,
Refractive surgery, soft contact lenses
Glaucoma research – optic neuropathy
Vitrectomy

11. Over 400 publications (172 cited in Medline)
Author of 6 books, including „Microsurgery of Glaucoma” (Thieme 1977, Mosby 1979)
Editor-in-chief of Vestnik Ophthalmologii
Member of Editorial Boards of 5 foreign journals including Annals of Ophthalmology
38 inventions patented in 13 countries
5x State and Governement prizes for scientific achievements in USSR and Russia

12. Prof. Krasnov was the first surgeon implanting IOLs in the USSR
The first surgeon in the world
applying laser in ophthalmology
Passed away on June 24, 2006 in Moscow
He will be remembered as one of the
most influencing Russian ophthalmologists
of the second half of XXth century