How is retinal detachment treated?

  • Vitrectomy: is the most frequently performed procedure to fix a retinal detachment The retina surgeon removes vitreous, a gel-like fluid from your eye under anesthesia. Fluid beneath the retina is exchanged with air that pushes it back the wall of the eye ( fluid gas exchange ). Laser photocoagulation or cryopexy is done to treat all the retinal tears and at the end of tamponading agent is injected to hold the retina in place. usually a gas or silicone oil
  • Scleral buckling is done in roughly 5-10 % of eyes with retinal detachment with specific This surgery involves a band around the outside of the eye to push the wall of the eye closer to the retina. During this procedure, cryopexy and retinopexy are also performed to treat the causative tear. In a certain subset of eyes subretinal fluid is also drained
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