PURPOSE To determine the risk of new retinal tear or detachment following cataract surgery in eyes that had undergone successful repair of phakic retinal tear or detachment. METHODS A computerized search of records of patients evaluated at the Barnes Retina Institute from 1990 to 2000 for a diagnosis of phakic retinal tear or detachment was accomplished. The records of successfully treated pa...

PURPOSE To determine the natural history of asymptomatic, clinical rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. DESIGN Single observer, prospective, consecutive, observational case series. METHODS Consecutive patients were included who were referred to the author's clinical practice with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment extending greater than two disk-diameters posterior to the equator. Patients who...

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...

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...

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...