Active clinical trials for "Retinal Detachment"

This is a prospective cohort study, comparing the functional outcomes and the retinal displacement rates between two techniques for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment repair: Pars Plana Vitrectomy (PPV) and Pneumatic Retinopexy (PnR).

Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a rare infectious retinitis which can potentially lead to devastating visual outcomes. ARN is diagnosed on the basis of the clinical appearance and disease course according to the diagnostic criteria proposed by the American Uveitis Society: (1) one or more foci of retinal necrosis with discrete borders in the peripheral retina; (2) rapid progression in the absence of antiviral therapy; (3) circumferential spread; (4) occlusive vasculopathy with arteriolar involvement; and (5) a prominent inflammatory reaction in the vitreous and anterior chambers. Herpesvirus infection, especially varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV), was presumed to be the pathogenic agent in the pathogenesis of ARN. Medical treatment with systemic antiviral agent had been the base of the therapy of ARN for decades and such treatment usually result in regression of retinitis. However, the visual outcome of ARN remains poor. The major causes of poor visual prognosis in ARN are retinal detachment and optic nerve or macular involvement by ischemic vasculopathy. Less frequent causes include macular hole formation, macular pucker, or hypotony. Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment may occur in 75 % of the untreated eyes. It may occur weeks to months after the onset of inflammation due to delayed formation of retinal breaks, which result from the combination of necrotic retina and vitreoretinal traction. Therefore, application of argon laser retinopexy prophylactically posterior to necrotic retina or prophylactic vitrectomy to reduce inflammatory factors and the vitreoretinal traction had been used to protect the healthy area from detachment. However, the results were varied and there is no consensus on the efficacy and indications of those prophylactic procedures. We had applied the prophylactic procedure in our treatment for ARN. We aim to access the efficacy of the treatment strategy of ARN and the correlated factors to the outcomes.

We investigated the hemostatic differences according to the main anesthetic agents by analyzing rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) under the hypothesis that propofol-based anesthesia would impair postoperative coagulability more than the sevoflurane-based anesthesia.

Prospective study evaluating the role of inflammasomes in cell death in retinal detachment, full thickness macular hole, and epiretinal membrane. The investigators are collecting vitreous and subretinal fluid samples from patients with these conditions and evaluating activity of the inflammasome pathway with established assays.

Postoperative pain (POP) is frequently underestimated in general and little data are available particularly for POP after vitreoretinal surgery (VRS). The investigators will conduct a 1-year retrospective study on patients undergoing VRS at "Careggi Hospital" . The aim of the study will be to observe the amount of POP, its time course, factors associated with its appearance and finally the efficacy of the pain protocol that is in use.

Photoreceptor apoptosis is the basis for permanent visual loss in a number of retinal disorders including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinal detachment (RD). Thus, despite tremendous advances in vitreoretinal surgery and management of rhegmatogenous RD leading to a primary reattachment rate over 95%, some patients show poor visual recovery because of photoreceptor apoptosis. Physiologically, microglial cells (resident macrophages) are present only in the inner retina. The subretinal space, located between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and the photoreceptor outer segments (POS), is devoid of all mononuclear phagocytes and form a zone of immune privilege. In AMD, several studies showed a strong association between subretinal mononuclear phagocytes infiltration and advanced forms of AMD. Experimental work in mice suggest that this infiltration plays an important role in the pathogenesis of this condition by producing inflammatory cytokines. RD-induced photoreceptor apoptosis might result from similar mechanisms. The aim of this study is to determine the cytokine profile in vitreous samples from patients with RD and to compare it with those from control patients with macular hole.

Study of initiating proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR)cell subtype (PVR initiating cells (PVR-IC) in RPE cells of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) patients; to prove the percentage of PVR-IC decides the risk of serious PVR occurring after surgery; to investigate the safety and efficacy of early local steroids drug intervention in patients with severe postoperative PVR.

We aimed o compare the refractive changes associated with pars plana vitrectomy with or without intraocular gas tamponade in pseudophakic eyes. This retrospective study included pseudophakic patients with Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy who underwent 23G PPV between February 2015 and March 2019. Group 1 consisted of patients with regmatogenous RD who underwent PPV and 12% perflouropropane (C3F8) gas tamponade whereas Group 2 consisted of patients who underwent PPV for epiretinal membrane or vitreous hemorrhage (VH). No tamponade was used in Group 2. Minimum follow-up was 12 months.

Blindness can be caused by many ocular diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, age-related macular degeneration, pathologic myopia and glaucoma. Without timely diagnosis and adequate medical intervention, the visual impairment can become a great burden on individuals as well as the society. It is estimated that China has 110 million patients under the attack of diabetes, 180 million patients with hypertension, 120 million patients suffering from high myopia and 200 million people over 60 years old, which suggest a huge population at the risk of blindness. Despite of this crisis in public health, our society has no more than 3,000 ophthalmologists majoring in fundus oculi disease currently. As most of them assembling in metropolitan cities, health system in this field is frail in primary hospitals. Owing to this unreasonable distribution of medical resources, providing medical service to hundreds of millions of potential patients threatened with blindness is almost impossible. To solve this problem, this software (MCS) was developed as a computer-aided diagnosis to help junior ophthalmologists to detect 13 major retina diseases from color fundus photographs. This study has been designed to validate the safety and efficiency of this device.

This process appears as a incredible and progressive event that will not stop till reattachment of RPE and neurosensory retina happened . Process of degeneration begins from first hours of RD (Retinal Detachment) establishment Neuroprotection of photoreceptor following RD is a novel and debatable discussion encountered in recent years . How to stop this phenomena and neuroprotective agent role in this issue are a new interest of researcher. In the study the investigators are planning to perform a clinical trial to demonstrate the minocycline neuroprotective effect in a double blind design as this impact has been implicated previously in a animal study