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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Whether to perform scleral buckle alone or add it to pars plana vitrectomy in cases of ...

We retrospectively evaluated the outcome of simultaneous scleral buckle and BGI surgery for patients with glaucoma requiring a scleral buckle for retinal detachment repair over a 10-year period. To ...

For many years, it is not fully understood how non-drainage scleral buckling surgery brings about spontaneous reattachment of the detached retina when retinal breaks remain open at the end of surgery.

NEW YORK (Nov. 26, 2008) -- Retinal detachment, a condition that afflicts about 10,000 Americans each year, puts an individual at risk for vision loss or blindness. In a new study in today's issue of ...

The risk for endophthalmitis after glaucoma drainage rises for up to 5 years and is much higher than that for a ...

What is retinal detachment and how is it linked to severe myopia? Experts break down why it happens, the telltale symptoms ...