The study below emphasizes a question you should ask your eyeMD when concerned about retinal detachment risks. Do I have a PVD, Posterior Retinal Detachment. It helps eyeMDs quantify your risk. If you do have a PVD, it means the gelatin inside the eye, the vitreous, has already detached from its attachments to the base […]
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Patients with no symptoms and lattice degeneration should likely not be treated unless there is a very strong family history. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Mar 14;3:CD003170. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003170.pub3. Interventions for asymptomatic retinal breaks and lattice degeneration for preventing retinal detachment. Wilkinson CP. Source Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. cwilkins@gbmc.org Abstract BACKGROUND:
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