Scleral buckling is a type of eye surgery doctors use to treat detached retinas. A detached retina is a medical emergency that requires immediate surgery. A detached retina is when the retina peels ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Temporary scleral buckling surgery for retinal detachments offers fewer complications ...

Evolving surgical techniques have increasingly improved the prognosis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, but no uniform agreement has been reached on the best method to reattach the retina.

In this retrospective study, a chart review of all patients with RRD associated with subretinal proliferation who were primarily treated with scleral buckling procedure, from April 2007 to April 2014, ...

Purpose: To report on the usefulness of combined Baerveldt glaucoma implantation (BGI) and scleral buckling surgery for patients with glaucoma requiring a scleral buckle for retinal detachment repair.

If the retina has become detached and the detachment is too large for laser treatment or cryotherapy alone, surgery is necessary to "reattach" the retina. Without some type of retinal reattachment ...

In a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading ophthalmologist writes that a high probability of reattachment and visual improvement is possible by using one of three currently ...

We retrospectively evaluated the outcome of simultaneous scleral buckle and BGI surgery for patients with glaucoma requiring a scleral buckle for retinal detachment repair over a 10-year period. To ...