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What Is Posterior Vitreous Detachment? Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is an eye condition that naturally happens with age, when gel that usually fills your eyeball detaches from your retina.

Usha (name changed), 62, was experiencing sudden and painless loss of vision in the right eye for one day when she turned up ...

External subretinal fluid drainage, when performed ... of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment are retinal breaks and vitreous traction. The two goals of retinal reattachment surgery are to seal ...