Detachment of Retina

Detachment of the Retina

Treatment of Detachment of the Retina

UNTIL recent years, detachment of the retina was a distressing eye lesion, which usually led on to blindness. By careful and painstaking work, a Swiss surgeon, Gonin, proved that by means of operation a certain percentage of selected cases can be cured. In this short paper I propose to discuss briefly the conditions of retinal detachment and give the results of my own efforts. By detachment of ...

Choroidal detachment following operation for detached retina.

Case Report A married female aged 51 noticed flickering spots in front of the right eye, succeeded by a shadow in the lower and outer field of vision. She was first examined on March 21, 1953, 5 weeks after the onset and a shallow retinal detachment was noted in the upper nasal quadrant. She was emmetropic with 6/6 vision in each eye. Repeated examination revealed no hole and a period of rest i...

Ischemia-reperfusion causes exudative detachment of the rabbit retina.

PURPOSE To characterize the activation of macroglial (Müller) and microglial cells, as well as neuronal cell degeneration, during ischemia-reperfusion in rabbit retina and to test the possible effect of triamcinolone acetonide on gliosis. METHODS Transient retinal ischemia was produced by increasing intraocular pressure for 60 minutes. Triamcinolone (8 mg) was intravitreally applied immediate...

Tritiated uridine labeling of the retina: changes after retinal detachment.

As part of a study designed to examine the response of photoreceptor cells to outer segment injury (retinal detachment), the pattern of RNA labeling ([3H]uridine incorporation) has been determined in detached cat retinas. Retinas were experimentally detached from the adjacent cellular layer (the retinal pigment epithelium:RPE) by injecting fluid into the extracellular space between the retina a...