Retinal Detachment Surgery

Get Rid Of Retinal Disorders With The Help Of Retinal Lasers

Retinal lasers are used for treating a huge variety of eye disorders in addition to two major causes of blindness such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. This kind of lasers is used in combination with other lasers to come up with a multitude of ophthalmological surgical procedures.

Retinal Diseases and its Symptoms

Eyes are the most important organs in the body and the retina gets information regarding everything you see including movements, shapes and colors. However, retina disorders will affect the way that the visual information is processed and even lead to absent or distorted vision. Retinal diseases have negative impacts on any part of your retina and even lead to complete blindness. While some retina diseases affect your side vision, whereas a few other diseases affect your central vision. Retinal diseases symptoms and treatment are the same and can be cured with the help of laser treatments.

What Causes Retinal Diseases?

There are many factors which contribute a lot to retinal diseases. They include retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. The retina gets detached from original tissue present inside the eye as a result of the break, tear or hole in the retinal blood vessel. However, diabetic retinopathy is caused by diabetes, especially when there is a higher sugar level in the blood, which in turn affects the blood vessels and makes them swell. The swollen blood vessel may lead to blurred vision. When it comes to age-related macular generation, it damages central vision, which is extremely important for seeing objects, reading and driving.

Safety Of Retinal Laser Surgery:

There is no need for making any special preparation and all laser surgeries are performed in outpatient clinics. Anesthesia in the form of eye drops is given to the patient for dilating the pupil and numbing the eye. You will feel comfortable at the time of retinal detachment surgery as it will be painless. Usually, the retina laser treatment will last for 30 minutes and you can go home once the procedure is done.

Complications:

There are no associated risks with this surgery. Relapse, bleeding, recurrence and reduce vision.