Regardless of size, tears may occur along the edges of lattice degeneration, chorioretinal scars, or in areas of apparently normal retina ... of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment are retinal ...

The retina is supported by a jelly-like transparent fluid known as vitreous. Retinal detachment occurs suddenly or spontaneously. When retinal detachment occurs, the retina does not function well ...

[19] Stage 1 A line of demarcation between the normal retina nearer the ... Stage 5 Complete retinal detachment, usually with the retina pulled into a funnel-shaped configuration by the ...

These are less resilient than the normal ones and leak even more ... vision loss can occur. A retinal detachment is when the retina pulls away from the tissues that nourish it.

Tertiary syphilis, which can develop years to decades after the initial infection, is characterized by chronic inflammatory ...

However, peripheral vision will still be normal in an affected individual ... the separation of the retina from the back eye ...

Pars plana vitrectomy is a safe and effective surgery that is essential in the treatment of a variety of posterior segment ...

In this Healio Video Perspective from the COPHy meeting, José García-Arumí, MD, PhD, summarizes a debate session he co-chaired on scleral buckling vs. vitrectomy in retinal detachment surgery.