Hello, Dear Readers! Just a quick update to let you know that my eye surgery (a vitrectomy for vitreomacular traction) took ...

Retinal tear surgery and retinal detachment surgery are distinct medical procedures. The retina is a thin layer of light-sensitive tissue at the back of your eyes. Your eye lens focuses light onto ...

The retina is a layer of tissue at the back of the eye that converts visual images into nerve impulses in the brain. Injuries to the eye can cause layers of the retina to separate, which is known as a ...

Retinal tears can result from age-related changes to the eye, trauma and injuries, and complications from eye surgery. Retinal tears are a vision-disrupting condition that can affect the clarity of ...

Retinal Detachment is an emergency. Symptoms may include sudden flashes of light, "floaters," or even a shadow or curtain coming down to obscure part of your vision. Here two ophthalmologists are ...

A robotic device allows eye surgeons to perform high-precision procedures on the retina, the fragile lining on the back of the eye that is less than a millimeter thick. When even the most highly ...

About 1 in 20 people who have had a laser procedure to patch a retinal tear will have another retinal tear or, worse, a retinal detachment after they have cataract surgery, an analysis of a large ...

Lawrence Jones didn't think much of his vision issues, until doctors told him he had a detached retina and was "going blind in one eye by the day." The "Fox & Friends" anchor, 33, who has made history ...