INTRODUCTION Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) is the most common form of retinal detachment, where a retinal "break" allows the ingress of fluid from the vitreous cavity to the subretinal space, resulting in retinal separation. It occurs in about 1 in 10,000 people a year. METHODS AND OUTCOMES We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical questions: What a...

The purpose of this paper is to point out the differential diagnostic value of contour and topography in distinguishing a number ofnon-rhegmatogenous elevations of the retina. The other diagnostic aspects of the disorders that are well known will be neglected for the sake of brevity. The characteristic contours of rhegmatogenous detachment were described in an earlier communication (Lincoff and...

Purpose To demonstrate a novel technique for capturing optical coherence tomography images of peripheral retina and its application in identifying rhegmatogenous retinal detachments within bullous retinoschisis. Observations We report two patients presenting with bullous retinoschisis noted on clinical examination. After performing optical coherence tomography studies utilizing our image acqu...

BACKGROUND Primary phakic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) without posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) represents a unique clinical entity that behaves differently from RRD associated with PVD. While previous studies have reported the long term findings in the fellow eye of patients with RRD and PVD, the outcome of the fellow eye of patients with RRD without PVD is not known. METHODS C...

PURPOSE To report a case of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with a high risk of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) effectively treated with episcleral surgery and an intravitreal dexamethasone 0.7-mg implant. METHODS A 35-year-old Caucasian man with a macula-off rhegmatogenous subtotal retinal detachment that had persisted for 1 month in his myopic left eye presented several risk factors...

A series of 95 eyes (93 patients) with retinal breaks, high-risk candidates for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, were treated prophylactically with argon laser photocoagulation (ALP). Group A comprised 74 eyes with flap symptomatic tears. In 28 of these (subgroup A (1)) the size of the tear was smaller than 1 disc diameter and greater than 1/3 disc diameter. In 46 eyes (subgroup A (2)) the si...

Purpose. The pathogenesis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) remains incompletely understood, with no clinically effective treatment for potentially severe complications such as photoreceptor cell death and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Here we investigate the protein profile of the vitreous following experimental retinal detachment using a comparative proteomic based approach. Mater...

Purpose: Transscleral diode retinal photocoagulation (diopexy) is becoming an accepted technique in the treatment of selected retinal diseases. The objective of this study is to evaluate diopexy technique in the production of adhesive chorioretinal lesions during the surgical treatment of the rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Methods: 25 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment were enr...

A healthy 17-year-old boy reported worsening vision in the right eye since childhood. On presentation, visual acuity was counting fingers in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye; intraocular pressure was within normal limits. Fovea-involving chronic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with retinal dialysis and subretinal bands was identified in the right eye, while there was macular subr...