Retinal detachment is a medical emergency, and the symptoms can appear quickly. If a person experiences the following symptoms, they should present immediately to an emergency room or call an eye ...

Rhegmatogenous: This is linked to retinal tears and is the most common type of retinal detachment. Such tears can be caused by aging, being nearsighted, having an injury, or having had eye surgery.

Retinal tear surgery and retinal detachment surgery are distinct medical procedures. The retina is a thin layer of light-sensitive tissue at the back of your eyes. Your eye lens focuses light onto ...

There are various causes of retinal detachment, but the most common are aging and eye injury. Diabetic retinopathy, a condition affecting individuals with diabetes, is another common cause.

A combination of routine eye scans and AI has created a powerful new way of measuring nearsightedness to better predict ...

Retinal detachment surgery is successful for 90% of those who undergo it. Postoperative vision improvement is related to many factors, such as how much of your retina detached and how soon surgery ...

“In those patients, we found a 2.4% rate of re-detachment as compared to the rest of the patients, who had only a 0.34% rate of retinal detachment occur after cataract surgery,” Ahmed said.

The prevalence of second-eye retinal detachment was 9.6% (9 of 94) in the unilateral cryotherapy group and 78.0% (92 of 118) in the unilateral control group.

Using a difference-in-differences approach, we examined changes in the provision of retinal detachment repair by 535 physicians in PE-acquired practices and 1,070 matched controls during the ...

The nested case-control study involved 989,591 patients who had visited an ophthalmologist between January 2000 and December 2007. The researchers used physician codes for retinal detachment ...