OBJECTIVE To describe retinal detachment with macular holes in infants with retinopathy of prematurity and the methods of surgical repair with their outcomes. METHODS A retrospective review of 4 cases of retinopathy of prematurity and 1 case of retinopathy in a full-term infant that resembled retinopathy of prematurity, in which a macular hole and associated retinal detachment developed and s...

INTRODUCTION We present an unusual case of anterior migration of a solid silicone encircling band 9 years after scleral buckling surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS An 83-year old woman presented with acute onset of pain and discharge in her left eye. She had undergone cataract surgery complicated by endophthalmitis and managed with pars plana vitrectomy nine years earlier. RESULTS The patient w...

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...

We operated on nine eyes in eight patients with retinal detachment associated with acute retinal necrosis (ARN) syndrome. The patients were treated with scleral buckling, vitreoretinal surgery, or a combination of these treatments. Vitrectomised eyes underwent combinations of lensectomy, membrane dissection, scleral buckling, air-fluid exchange, endolaser photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and reti...

Diplopia following retinal detachment usually responds to simple measures. Fifteen out of 311 cases developed diplopia lasting more than three months after conventional retinal detachment surgery. Binocular single vision was restored in 12 of the 15 cases (80%). The mean follow-up was four years. Diplopia was eliminated stepwise. If prisms were ineffective, our first surgical procedure was remo...

J Gonin changed the entire concept of pathogenesis of retinal detachment and identified retinal breaks as the cause of retinal detachments1. He developed the surgical technique of drainage of subretinal fluid beneath the retinal break combined with direct treatment of the break by transscleral cautery (ignipuncture) with a success rate of 40%2. The invention of binocular indirect ophthalmoscope...

purpose : evaluating the effects of memantine on visual function after scleral buckling for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (rrd) methods : in a double blind prospective randomized clinical trial, 61 patients with clinical diagnosis of less than 4 weeks macula-off rrd who had successful scleral buckle surgery had been selected and divided into two randomized groups. thirty of them received 5 ...

Scleral buckling is a surgical technique to treat rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). Vision may be affected by the scleral buckle. Since the buckle is pushed into the sclera towards the detached retina, it may change the shape and the focal length of the eyeball. A paradigm mathematical model of human eyeball is set up to examine how the focal length of the eye is affected under the actio...