Scleral buckling is a type of eye surgery doctors use to treat detached retinas. A detached retina is a medical emergency that requires immediate surgery. A detached retina is when the retina peels ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW YORK — Scleral buckling may offer good outcomes for retinal detachment, but only 43.5% of children requiring ...

If the retina has become detached and the detachment is too large for laser treatment or cryotherapy alone, surgery is necessary to "reattach" the retina. Without some type of retinal reattachment ...

We evaluated 30 eyes of 30 patients (83% men, 50% white) with a mean age of 53.1 ± 21.3 years (range, 12 to 87 y) and mean follow-up time of 27.7 ± 20.1 months (range, 6 to 88 mo) (Table 1). Patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgeon performance may explain the higher failure rate with vitrectomy in retinal detachment repair.

Dr. Michael Kapusta, MD, FRSCS, Ophthalmologist, talks about retinal detachment and scleral buckle repair as a treatment. Officials release images of 'armed individual' in Nancy Guthrie case GOP Sen.

Ophthalmologists perform a dilated fundus examination to diagnose retinal tears. Dilating drops widen the pupil to allow ...