A previous retinal tear or retinal detachment may be a risk factor for developing a recurrent phakic retinal tear after ...

To evaluate the outcome of scleral buckling surgery in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with subretinal proliferation. In this retrospective study, a chart review of all ...

There are three types of surgery for retinal detachment: 1) scleral bucking surgery, 2) pneumatic retinopexy, and 3) vitrectomy. The traditional surgery for retinal detachment is scleral buckling ...

L ONG BEACH, Calif. -- Methotrexate, during and after surgery for primary retinal detachment, has produced "amazing" early ...

Discussion We retrospectively evaluated the outcome of simultaneous scleral buckle and BGI surgery for patients with glaucoma requiring a scleral buckle for retinal detachment repair over a 10 ...

1. Scleral Buckling. A common way to treat a retinal detachment, scleral buckling surgery has been performed with success for several decades. In this procedure, a piece of silicone is sutured ...

Abstract Several techniques are described for the treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Retrospective studies have not clearly indicated a superiority of one or another technique. In ...

Different primary retinal detachment procedures are preferred at different centers but yield comparable anatomical and visual outcomes, a study found. The most commonly used treatments for primary ...

Conventional buckling surgery or primary vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with multiple breaks. Graefe Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2004; 242: 295–300.

A surgery like this was only supposed to take about an hour; mine on the other hand had to take three hours to complete. First off, a scleral buckle is a semi-hard lens that is placed on the ...