Facedown positioning following surgery is not more likely to close large (≥400 mcm) macular holes compared with seating faced forward, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. However, ...

The macula is the center part of your retina. It gives you your central vision, what you see right in front of you. When the macula is damaged, you can still see around the edges of your vision, ...

Medicated drops may help close small macular holes over a two- to eight-week period, allowing some people to avoid surgery to fix the vision problem, a new study suggests. The findings, based on a ...

Secondly, the postoperative visual acuity was used as one of the most important outcome measures in this study. Yet, visual acuity can be heavily affected by cataract and posterior capsular ...

Ophthalmologist and retinal surgeon Dimitra Skondra, MD, Ph.D., knows that developing any new treatment can be fraught with false hopes and unexpected setbacks. She is cautiously optimistic, however, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous unsuccessful topical therapy does not affect outcomes in patients who undergo surgical macular hole ...

Among retina surgeons, there is an ongoing debate around the value and necessity of face-down positioning after macular hole surgery. Historically, patients with macular hole surgery would be ...

Poor preoperative visual acuity, perioperative complications, age-related macular degeneration and delay to surgery are significant predictors of final visual acuity outcomes in patients who underwent ...

Dr. Michael Kapusta, MD, FRSCS, Ophthalmologist, talks about what a macular hole is and the treatment with pars plana vitrectomy surgery. ‘We will find you’: Massachusetts attorney and US citizen told ...