Retinal Detachment - a complete description to this retina condition, its causes, treatments and options.

Retinal Detachment - Next to central retinal artery occlusion and chemical burns to the eye, retinal detachment is one of the most time critical eye emergencies encountered in the ED. Retinal detachment (RD) was first recognized in the early 1700s by de Saint-Yves, but clinical diagnosis remained elusive until Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope in 1851.Tragically, RDs were uniformly ...

The retina is the neurosensory tissue that lines the back inside wall of the eye, just like wall paper on a sheetrock wall. Just like the film in a camera, the retina transfers the light coming into our eye into vision. The center of the retina is called the macula and is the only part capable of fine detailed vision, i.e. reading vision, recognizing faces, etc. The remainder of the retina , ...