When these strands drift across the eye, they create shadows on the retina, they are called floaters. When the vitreous starts to shrink with age, it can pull away from the back of the eye. This is ...

02/10/2025 February 10, 2025 Flashing lights, flickering vision and floaters can all be signs of a retinal detachment. If it’s not treated quickly, blindness can be the result. Retinal ...

Floaters can occur if a posterior vitreous detachment doesn't happen cleanly, as well. During the process, a hole can form in the retina, or there can be a retinal detachment, in which the light ...

Dr. Stacy Chronister explains how aging affects vision, highlighting common eye conditions like retinal detachment, glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, and peripheral vision loss, along with ...

The two most important factors in the development of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment are retinal breaks and vitreous traction. The two goals of retinal reattachment surgery are to seal all ...

Seeing flashing lights in the corner of one or both eyes can occur with migraine or result from trauma, detached retina, or other problems. The flashes of light may vary in shape, color, frequency ...

Cataracts, dry eyes, glaucoma and other eye problems become more common with age. But these can be treated — and sometimes ...

Regarding the treatment of MGS combined with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, vitrectomy is performed most combined with paraoptic disc laser photocoagulation. Reattachment of the retina can be ...

At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nita Valikodath, MD, MS, gave insight into a challenging case of a 14-year-old boy who had trauma-related retinal detachment in his right eye, ...

Shah discusses several studies from the IRIS registry and plans for a retina program at next year's event to address the ...