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What is Retina?
The retina is the light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eyeball. Images that come through the eye’s lens are focused on the retina, which converts these images to electric signals and sends them along the optic nerve to the brain.
Types of retinal diseases
- Diabetes-related retinopathy.
- Retinal detachment.
- Retinal tears or holes.
- Infectious retinitis.
- Central serous retinopathy
- Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD)
- Macular edema
What are retinal diseases?
A retinal disease can affect any part of your retina, including your macula i.e.the center part of your retina that lets you see details. Many retinal diseases cause symptoms that affect your vision. It’s important to find and treat diseases of the retina. Many of them can cause blindness or low vision if they aren’t treated.
What are the symptoms of retinal diseases?
What are the risk factors for Retinal Diseases?
- Getting older.
- Smoking.
- Obesity or overweight.
- Diabetes, hypertension or other conditions.
- High myopia
- Previous retinal tears or detachments.
- Having previous eye injuries or surgeries.
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Treatment depends on the type of retinal disease you have. Depending on the
condition, treatment can stop the disease or slow down how quickly it gets worse. Therapy options include surgical procedures, laser treatments and injections of medicines into or around your eyes.
Vitrectomy is a surgical procedure to treat the following types of retinal disease:
- Retinal detachments.
- Hemorrhage inside eye
- Macular pucker
- Macular hole
- Eye injuries, including foreign objects in your eye.
- Eye infections.
- Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
Injections of medicine into the vitreous treat the following retinal conditions:
- Wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
- Advanced diabetic retinopathy.
- Macular edema from various causes.
- Eye infections
- Inflammatory eye diseases. Lasers treat:
- Abnormal blood vessel growth over the surface of retina/ over the iris
- Retinal tears.
- Central serous retinopathy
- Macular edema.
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