PURPOSE To determine the long-term risk of retinal detachment following pediatric cataract surgery and to identify risk factors for retinal detachment. METHODS We included all children (aged 0 to 17 years) who during the time period of 1977 to 2005 underwent pediatric cataract surgery in Denmark, excluding cataract cases caused by trauma, or acquired systemic or acquired ocular pathology, and...

PURPOSE To describe a patient with Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome who developed a nonsimultaneous intraoperative choroidal hemorrhage in each eye. METHOD Interventional case report. A 65-year-old Caucasian woman with Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome developed a choroidal hemorrhage in the left eye during vitrectomy for a complicated retinal detachment with a poor visual outcome. Fifteen years later, sh...

A 43-year-old man presented with giant papillary conjunctivitis of the left eye 5 months after retinal detachment repair silicone oil that was complicated by massive postoperative subconjunctival leak. Examination demonstrated clear mobile cysts in Tenon’s capsule for 360 degrees (Fig A), punctate keratopathy, and a reaction on superior tarsal conjunctiva B). Surgical excision cystic lesions pe...

Objective: To describe results of barrier laser photocoagulation in preventing progression of recurrent retinal detachment. Methodology: Prospective review of five patients with recurrent retinal detachment confined to the peripheral inferior retina. Three rows of barrier argon laser photocoagulation of moderate intensity white burns were performed. Patients were observed carefully after laser ...

Retinal detachment often is a preventable cause of vision loss. There are three types of retinal detachments: exudative, tractional, and rhegmatogenous. The most common type is rhegmatogenous, which results from retinal breaks caused by vitreoretinal traction. Risk factors for retinal detachment include advancing age, previous cataract surgery, myopia, and trauma. Patients typically will presen...

BACKGROUND Healed cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in the setting of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is complicated by inflammatory sequelae and vision loss. AIM To determine the long term visual outcome of AIDS patients with CMV retinitis who received HAART. METHODS 90 eyes of 63 consecutive AIDS patients with extramacular CMV retinitis were studied prospectively. RESULTS Imm...

AIM To present the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgery in cases of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated (at presentation) by proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study of the cases operated upon by a single surgeon between October 2012 and September 2014. RESULTS A total of 49 eyes of 49 patients had PVR at presentation (12 cases with ...

Marsden, J. (2004) Implications of and treatment options for retinal detachment. Nursing Times; 100: 37, 44–47. The retina is a complex structure that turns light falling onto it via a chemical reaction into nerve impulses, which then travel to the brain for interpretation into images. If the retina is damaged or moved from its correct location, a person’s ability to interpret the world is comp...

Is it retinal detachment? While most often the diagnosis of retinal detachment is straightforward, there could be confusion on occasions. Conditions that can be confused with retinal detachment are retinal oedema (as in Berlin’s oedema), retinoschisis, choroidal detachment, thick vitreous membranes (as in Uveitis), altered blood, etc. Evaluation should include careful slit lamp biomicroscopy, i...