PURPOSE To describe the characteristics and surgical outcomes of pediatric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. METHODS A retrospective study of pediatric patients (15 years old or younger) who had undergone primary surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment was conducted. Patients were divided into five groups according to the predisposing factors: trauma (group 1), myopia (group 2), atopic...

BACKGROUND Scleral buckling is still a common procedure to repair rhematogenous retinal detachment, and acute or chronic infection of the scleral explant is rare. We report an intractable case of acute scleral explant infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. CASE A 36-year-old man suffered from acute scleral explant infection by P. aeruginosa forty-eight hours after scleral buckling for rhegmatog...

PURPOSE To modify existing experimental models to simulate the typical clinical presentation of human rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), namely an RD caused by a retinal break, in a phakic eye, with a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD); to model RRD in a species that is anatomically similar to humans; and to characterize the glial cell response to RRD. METHODS Mixed-breed pigs underwen...

Outward and inward permeability of carboxyfluorescein across the blood-retinal barrier were measured fluorophotometrically in seven cynomolgus monkey eyes with experimental rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Probenecid was used to inhibit outward transport of carboxyfluorescein. The outward permeability was 1.98 +/- 0.31 microliter/min in eyes with retinal detachment and 0.84 +/- 0.15 microlite...

To understand the role of tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase-1 and -2 (TIMP-1 and TIMP-2) in intraocular diseases, levels of TIMP-1 and TIMP-2 were measured by enzyme immunoassay in 47 patients with various ocular diseases: in subretinal fluid of 7 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and in vitreous of 12 patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, 4 with proliferative vit...

PURPOSE To define the incidence and demographic characteristics of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) requiring surgery in Korea. DESIGN Nationwide population-based retrospective study. METHODS Patients who underwent surgery for RRD from 2007 to 2011 were retrospectively identified using the diagnostic code for RRD and the surgical codes for retinal detachment surgeries in the national...

The occurrence of loculated bleb-like delayed subretinal fluid absorption has been reported following scleral buckling surgery and more commonly following pneumatic retinopexy among adults and seldom in children. The authors report the occurrence of delayed subretinal fluid absorption following scleral buckling surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in a 15-year-old girl, indicating the ...