Dr. Niteen Dedhia

March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018

Most retinal tears should be dealt with via fixing the retina to the back wall of the eye with laser surgery or cryotherapy (freezing treatment). Both of these systems make a scar that causes seal the retina to the back of the eye. This keeps liquid from going through the tear and under the retina, which ordinarily keeps the retina from segregating. These medicines cause practically no distress and might be performed in your ophthalmologist's office.

How a laser surgery is performed?

Laser surgery is done with laser, your ophthalmologist will use a laser to make little consumes around the retinal tear. The scarring that outcomes seals the retina to the hidden tissue, keeping a retinal separation. For freezing treatment, your eye specialist utilizes an extraordinary freezing test to apply serious freezing probe around the retinal tear. The outcome is a scar that secures the retina to the eye divider. Scleral clasp treatment includes setting an adaptable band (scleral clasp) around the eye to balance the power hauling the retina strange. The ophthalmologist frequently depletes the liquid under the isolates retina, enabling the retina to settle once more into its ordinary position against the back wall of the eye.

This technique is performed in an operating room. The gas bubble pushes the retinal attack put against the back mass of the eye. Now and then this method should be possible in the ophthalmologist's office.

After the surgery

Your ophthalmologist will ask you to always keep up a specific set out position toward a few days. The gas air pocket will continuously vanish.

What is Vitrectomy surgery?

This is ordinarily used to settle a retinal separation and is performed in a working room. The vitreous gel, which is pulling on the retina, is expelled from the eye and for the most part supplanted with a gas bubble. Some of the time an oil bubble is utilized (rather than a gas rise) to keep the retina set up. Your body own particular liquids will step by step supplant a gas bubble. An oil air pocket should be expelled from the eye at a later date with another surgical system. In some cases vitrectomy is joined with a scleral clasp. On the off chance that a gas bubble was set in your eye, your ophthalmologist may prescribe that you keep your head in exceptional positions for a period. Try not to fly in a plane or go at high elevations until the point when you are told the gas bubble is no more.

A quick increment in height can cause an unsafe ascent in eye weight. With an oil bubble, it is sheltered to fly on a plane. Most retinal separation surgeries (80 to 90 percent) are fruitful, despite the fact that a moment operation is at times required. Some retinal separations can't be settled. The advancement of scar tissue is the typical reason that a retina can't be settled. On the off chance that the retina can't be reattached, the eye will keep on losing sight and at last wind up noticeably visually impaired.

After good surgery for retinal separation, vision may take numerous months to enhance and, now and again, may stay away for the indefinite future completely.