Detached retina means lifting away of the retina from the back of the eye. The retina is a sensitive tissue made up of nerve cells called rods and cones. The retina is present in the backside of ...

When a chronic medical condition is the cause of a detached retina, your symptoms can occur gradually. Your treatment depends ...

Medically reviewed by Christine L. Larsen, MD Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) occurs when the vitreous—a gel-like fluid ...

Tertiary syphilis, which can develop years to decades after the initial infection, is characterized by chronic inflammatory ...

“The main proposed reason behind this is that we suspect that there is vitreous destabilization, and then this causes significant traction of the retina, which leads to retinal detachmen ...

The most common causes of low vision were errors of refraction ... (18.4%), whereas blindness was primarily caused by retinal detachment (14.3%). Regarding eye surgeries, 34% of patients with ...