18/11/2025
Retinal Disease Treatment at Khodadoust Eye Hospital |
✅ The main goals of retinal treatment are to stop or slow disease progression and preserve, improve, or restore your vision. In many cases, damage that has already occurred cannot be reversed, making regular checkups and early detection crucial. Your doctor will advise you on the best treatment options for your retinal condition.
Treating retinal disease can be complex and challenging. Some treatment options include:
1. Laser Therapy
Laser surgery can repair a retinal tear or repair a hole in the retina. The doctor uses a laser to heat tiny points on the retina. This results in scar tissue that typically joins (welds) the retina to the underlying tissue. Prompt laser treatment of a new retinal tear can reduce the chance of it causing retinal detachment.
2. Shrinking Abnormal Blood Vessels
Your doctor may use a technique called laser scattering photocoagulation to shrink new, abnormal blood vessels that are bleeding or threatening to bleed in the eye. This treatment may help people with diabetic retinopathy. However, heavy use of this treatment may lead to loss of peripheral (side) or night vision.
3. Cryo-stabilization.
In this procedure, called cryo-stabilization, the surgeon places a freezing probe on the outer wall of the eye to treat a retinal tear. The extreme cold penetrates the eye and freezes the retina. The treated area will then scar and secure the retina to the eye wall.
4. Injecting air or gas into your eye.
This technique, called pneumatic retinal stabilization, is used to help repair certain types of retinal detachment. It can be used in conjunction with cryo-stabilization or laser photocoagulation.
5. Scleral incision.
This surgery, called scleral incision, is used to repair retinal detachment. Your surgeon sutures a small piece of silicone material onto the outer surface of your eye (the sclera). This procedure cuts into the sclera (the white of the eye) and relieves some of the force exerted by the vitreous humor on the retina, reattaching it. This technique can be used in conjunction with other treatments.
6. Draining and Replacing the Fluid in the Eye
In this procedure, called a vitrectomy, your surgeon removes the gel-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye (the vitreous humor). They then inject air, gas, or liquid into this space.
A vitrectomy may be used if bleeding or inflammation floods the vitreous humor and obstructs the surgeon's view of the retina. This technique can be part of the treatment for people with a retinal tear, diabetic retinopathy, macular hole, epiretinal membrane, eye infection or injury, or retinal detachment.
7. Injecting Medication into the Eye
Your doctor may suggest injecting medication into the vitreous humor of your eye. This technique may be effective in treating people with wet macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, or broken blood vessels inside the eye.
8- Artificial Retina Implantation.
People with severe vision loss or blindness due to certain inherited retinal diseases may require surgery. This involves implanting a small electrode chip in the retina that receives input from a video camera on a pair of glasses. The electrode captures and transmits visual information that the damaged retina can no longer process. (This treatment is currently in the clinical trial and research phase and is not yet available for general use.)
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