It’s a good thing you came in now,” a nurse told me before preparing my right eye for numbing drops, an injection and the ...

A 15-year-old boy from Eswatini with severe vision impairment is set to return home Thursday with significantly improved ...

PVD is a condition where vitreous gel comes away from the retina at the back of the eye. It is not painful but can cause symptoms such as seeing small, dark spots or shapes and flashing lights.

High blood sugars have long been known to cause eye damage in diabetics. However, new research has found that low blood sugar ...

It happens slowly over time. With it, you get a hole, tear, or break in the retina. That lets the vitreous gel -- the fluid from the middle of your eye-- leak under the retina. When the liquid ...

He said in a majority of the cases, macular holes are postulated to be caused by idiopathic vitreomacular traction (pulling of the vitreous gel on the macula). In some cases, trauma may be ...

Have you noticed tiny squiggles, flashes, or shadows in your vision? You might be experiencing eye floaters—common visual phenomena caused by clumps of vitreous gel casting shadows on the retina. Eye ...

The 4% liquid lidocaine applied with cotton swabs and 3.5% lidocaine gel were administered per standard ... and a 0.05 mL ranibizumab injection into the vitreous cavity using a sterile 32-G ...

They're then injected into the gel-filled vitreous chamber between the retina and the lens. Next, a small infrared laser device is used to excite these nanoparticles and activate specific cells in ...