Patients requiring vitrectomy for macular hole, macular pucker, and diabetic retinopathy often have coexisting cataract. Cataract formation is one of the most common sequelae following vitrectomy.

Optometrists may not surgically repair macular holes, but they play a crucial role in managing visual outcomes in these ...

Breaks may be subdivided into tears, holes, and dialyses ... and retinopathy of prematurity. A macular pucker should be thought of as a small, localized traction RD. Exudative (serous) RD occurs ...

with or without pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) as primary surgery or with a previous failed surgical approach in patients affected by high myopia and macular hole (MH) with or without macular detachment ...

Similarly, Ikuno compared eyes with foveal detachment, retinoschisis and macular hole undergoing vitrectomy for foveoschisis. Visual acuity improved two lines or more in 81% of the foveal detachment ...

The company says that in pre-clinical tests performed on 30 people with macular degeneration, all of the participants experienced a reading speed increase of at least 50% when using the glasses.

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model ...

"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...

See our ethics statement. There’s nothing to hide with this one: You have a shovel and yearn for a really big hole. It’s a small hole at first, but it gets bigger with time. The deeper you go ...