For patients diagnosed with retinal disease, at Clearsight Eye and Laser Centre, our team can provide comprehensive retinal care, offering both medical treatment such as intravitreal injections, as well as surgical treatment such as Vitrectomy, which involves the replacement of gel-like fluid in the eye being replacement with air, gas or fluid.
Surgical treatment for Retinal Disease at Clearsight Eye & Laser Centre include:
- Vitrectomy: This procedure involves the removal of the central gel-like fluid from the eye and its replacement with air, gas, or fluid.
- Cryopexy: This procedure involves using a freezing probe to treat a retinal tear.
- Pneumatic retinopexy: This procedure involves the injection of a gas or air into the eye to treat retinal detachment.
- Scleral buckling: This procedure involves suturing material to the outer eye surface to relieve some of the forces acting on the retina to treat retinal detachment.
Specialists providing surgical treatment for Retinal Disease at Clearsight Eye & Laser Centre:
Medical treatments for Retinal Disease at Clearsight Eye & Laser Centre include:
- Intravitreal (eye) injections: Injecting certain medications into the eye may help treat conditions such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion
- Focal laser photocoagulation: This is done to treat swollen retinas or repair retinal tears.
- Scatter laser photocoagulation: This procedure causes the shrinking of abnormal blood vessels to prevent bleeding into the eye.
