Diagnosis
Diagnosis involves the steps that your healthcare professional takes to find out if retinal detachment is the cause of your symptoms. Your healthcare team may use the following tests and instruments to diagnose retinal detachment:
- Retinal exam. Your healthcare professional may use an instrument with a bright light and special lenses to check the back of your eye, including the retina. This type of device provides a detailed view of your whole eye. It lets your healthcare professional see any retinal holes, tears or detachments.
- Ultrasound imaging. Your healthcare professional may use this test if bleeding has happened in your eye. Bleeding makes it hard to see the retina.
Treatment
Surgery is almost always the type of treatment used to repair a retinal tear, hole or detachment. Various techniques are available. Ask your ophthalmologist about the risks and benefits of your treatment options. Together you can decide what treatment or combination of treatments is best for you.
Retinal tears
When the retina has a tear or hole but hasn’t yet become detached, your eye surgeon may suggest one of the following treatments. These treatments can help prevent retinal detachment and preserve vision.
- Laser surgery, also called laser photocoagulation or retinopexy. The surgeon directs a laser beam into the eye through the pupil. The laser makes burns around the retinal tear to create scarring that usually “welds” the retina to underlying tissue.
- Freezing, also called cryopexy. Before treatment starts, you’re given medicine to numb your eye. Then the surgeon applies a freezing probe to the outer surface of the eye directly over the tear. The freezing causes a scar that helps secure the retina to the eye wall.
Both of these treatments can be done in the eye doctor’s office. Most often, you can go home afterward. You’ll likely be told not to do activities that might jar the eyes — such as running — for a couple of weeks or so.
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