Retinal detachment was irreversible, but with the groundbreaking contributions of medical pioneers like Jules Gonin in the 1920s and Charles Schepens in the 1940s, surgical techniques have evolved, im ...

Usha (name changed), 62, was experiencing sudden and painless loss of vision in the right eye for one day when she turned up ...

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Every morning – shortly after checking my phone and shortly before brushing my teeth – I pull down my lower eyelids in turn ...

The authors commented that the patient’s "age, relative acute onset, and lack of medical history make this an atypical ...

Multiple quadrant hydrodissection helps to diffuse fluid evenly, forming a good cushioning ... be needed if the nucleus lies in the anterior vitreous. In such a situation in which the nucleus ...

External subretinal fluid drainage, when performed ... of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment are retinal breaks and vitreous traction. The two goals of retinal reattachment surgery are to seal ...

We get floaters when vitreous fibres - a gel-like fluid that makes up 80 per cent of the eye - clog together, according to Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists’ Dr Daniel ...

With glaucoma, this fluid doesn’t drain as fast as it’s ... but can be the most effective way to control eye pressure. The ...

In that case, a fluid-filled cup, or water bath ... such as the retina and vitreous. It can also let an opthalmologist see the back wall of the eye, or posterior sclera, and the optic nerve.