Macular hole information

A macular hole is a small break in the macula, located in the center of the eye's light-sensitive tissue called the retina. If the vitreous is firmly attached...

vitrectomy for patients with idiopatic macular hole improved visual acuity by about 1.5 lines on an acuity chart. Macular hole closure was 76% in those treated...

examples of the etiology include macular pucker (macular detachment), macular hole, and age-related macular degeneration. Macular dystrophies and telangiectasia...

following: Age-related macular degeneration Epiretinal membrane and vitreomacular traction Posterior vitreous detachment Macular hole Tests used for diagnosis...

macula is a disease known as macular degeneration and can sometimes lead to the creation of a macular hole. Macular holes are rarely caused by trauma,...

field loss is seen in Optic neuritis, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, Macular hole, Cone dystrophy, Branch retinal artery occlusion etc. Peripheral visual...

in diagnosis of a full thickness macular hole and also to assess retinal function after surgical closure of the hole, with the help of slit lamp. Most...

Epiretinal membrane ESR Erythrocyte sedimentation rate FTMH Full thickness macular hole FMNS Fusion maldevelopment nystagmus syndrome (Latent nystagmus) Fx Family...

such as macular hole and macular pucker, that can cause visual impairment, including blindness. It may also be associated with age-related macular degeneration...

induce a chorioretinal scar and to destroy retinal or choroidal tissue. Macular hole repair Partial lamellar sclerouvectomy Partial lamellar sclerocyclochoroidectomy...

retinopathy with vitreoretinal traction; c) Atypical cases of impending macular hole. Retinoschisis involving the central part of the retina secondary to...

Pearls". Chuang LH, Lai CC, Yang KJ, Chen TL, Ku WC (2001). "A traumatic macular hole secondary to a high-energy Nd:YAG laser". Ophthalmic Surg Lasers. 32...

approval for vitreomacular traction (VMT), including when associated with macular hole of diameter less than or equal to 400 microns" (PDF). 15 March 2013....

worn as pinhole glasses. Differential diagnosis: pinhole worsen vision: Macular diseases, central lens opacities Vision static with pinhole: Amblyopia...

G. (April 2005). "The macular buckling procedure in the treatment of retinal detachment in highly myopic eyes with macular hole and posterior staphyloma:...

3) Age-related macular degeneration — the photosensitive cells in the macula malfunction and over time cease to work (H35.3) Macular degeneration — loss...

occurring after surgery is less than one in 1000. Corneal edema and cystoid macular edema are less serious but more common, and occur because of persistent...

vitreous haemorrhage in patients with only one eye, epiretinal membranes, macular holes and the various forms of retinal detachment. Scleral buckle was a previously...

p.Y402H) have been associated with the common eye disease age-related macular degeneration. Polymorphisms of complement component 3, complement factor...

an eye with retinopathy may be able to see no signs at all, or a slight macular edema, which is a sort of blister on or under the macula, an oval colored...