Retina
What is Retina?
The retina is a light-sensitive tissue that lines the inner surface of the eye. The retina has layers of neurons, called photoreceptor cells that are interconnected by synapses.
Diagnosing Retina
When the light passes through the cornea, it strikes the retina, and this creates a chemical and electrical trigger of nerve impulses. These impulses are sent to the brain through the fiber of optic nerves and thus creates an image for us. When the retina is damaged, it can result in a loss of vision. You may also experience flashes and floaters as a result of retinal issues.
Treating Retinal Disease
Regular eye exams are important in diagnosing, treating, and managing retinal diseases. If you’re experiencing retina issues or symptoms of a damaged retina, schedule an appointment at the Alta Vista Eye Care for an exam. Our Eye Doctors will help you take the next steps towards finding the right eye care treatment for you.
Advanced Retina Care at Alta Vista Eye Care
Your retina plays a vital role in capturing the images you see, and any damage to this delicate part of the eye can significantly impact your vision. At Alta Vista Eye Care, we specialize in providing advanced care for a wide range of retinal conditions to protect and restore your sight. Our experienced team uses state-of-the-art technology and personalized treatments to address even the most complex retinal issues. With our expertise, you can trust us to help you achieve and maintain optimal eye health.
Comprehensive Retina Care
We treat various retinal disorders, including:
- Diabetic Retinopathy: Management of retinal damage caused by diabetes to prevent vision loss.
- Macular Degeneration: Advanced treatments to address both wet and dry forms of AMD, preserving central vision.
- Retinal Tears and Detachments: Emergency care to repair retinal injuries and restore visual function.
- Vascular Disorders: Treatment for retinal vein occlusions and other blood flow-related conditions.
- Flashes and Floaters: Thorough evaluations to rule out serious retinal issues.
Cutting-Edge Diagnostics and Treatments
Our retina specialists use state-of-the-art technology for precise diagnosis and treatment, offering options like laser therapy, injections, and surgical solutions tailored to your specific condition.
Why Alta Vista Eye Care?
With a patient-first approach and advanced expertise, Alta Vista Eye Care ensures personalized care for optimal retinal health. Trust us to help you maintain clear and vibrant vision.
Contact us today to schedule your consultation and safeguard your retinal health!
Treatments
Retinal Diagnostics & Testing refers to the medical function and technologies used to examine the retina—a light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye. These tests are all-important for detecting condition like:
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Macular retrogression (AMD)
- Retinal detachment
- Retinal vein occlusion
- Glaucoma
- Hypertensive retinopathy
Common Retinal Diagnostic Tests:
- Fundus Photography
- Captures detailed paradigm of the retina, optic disc, and macula.
- Useful for documenting and trailing disease progression.
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
- Non-invasive imaging that furnish cross-sectional view of the retina.
- Essential for diagnose macular edema, AMD, and epiretinal membranes.
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Involves interject a fluorescent dye into the bloodstream to highlight retinal blood vessels.
- Utilize to detect leaking, blocked, or abnormal vessels.
- Indocyanine Green Angiography (ICG)
- Similar to fluorescein angiography but uses a dissimilar dye.
- Considerably for imaging deeper retinal and choroidal vessels.
- Amsler Grid Test
- A mere showing test for macular problems.
- Detects distortions or leave out areas in key vision.
- Ultrasound (B-scan)
- Use when the retina can't be seen directly (for example, due to impenetrable cataract or hemorrhage).
- Helps appraise retinal detachment or tumors.
- Electroretinography (ERG)
- Measures electrical reply of the retina to light.
- Diagnosing inherited retinal disease like retinitis pigmentosa.
- Visual Field Testing
- Assesses peripheral vision.
- Help notice damage from glaucoma or retinal stroke.
Vitreoretinal surgeries are specialized procedures do on the vitreous humor (the gelatin-alike substance inside the centre) and the retina (the light-raw layer at the rachis of the center). These operating theatre are typically performed by a vitreoretinal surgeon to address various sight-imperil retinal and macular conditions.
Common Vitreoretinal Surgeries:
- Pars Plana Vitrectomy (PPV)
- Most common vitreoretinal procedure.
- Affect removing the glassy gelatin to plow status such as:
- Retinal detachment
- Vitreous hemorrhage
- Epiretinal membrane (macular pucker)
- Macular hole
- Intraocular alien body
- Endophthalmitis (optic infection)
- Scleral Buckling
- Used primarily for retinal detachment.
- Involves placing a silicone polymer band around the eye to indent the sclera and conclude retinal breaks.
- Pneumatic Retinopexy
- A less incursive procedure for certain case of retinal detachments.
- A accelerator bubble is interpose into the oculus to crowd the retina backward into property, often mix with laser or cryotherapy.
- Laser Photocoagulation
- Much employ in diabetic retinopathy or retinal vein occlusions.
- Manipulation rivet optical maser to seal leaky watercraft or forestall unnatural blood watercraft growth.
- Intravitreal Injections (for instance, Anti-VEGF therapy)
- Technically not operating theatre, but a common in-office procedure.
- Used to treat:
- Wet macular degeneration
- Diabetic macular edema
- Retinal nervure occlusion
- Uveitis (inflammation)
- Membranectomy or Peel (ERM or ILM Peeling)
- Removal of membrane on the aerofoil of the retina (epiretinal membrane) or internal limiting membrane (ILM).
- Common in typesetter's case of macular ruck or macular hole.
- Retinectomy
- Surgical remotion of a portion of the retina, often in complex retinal detachment cases.
- Subretinal Surgery
- Require order substances (for instance, factor therapy vectors, retinal implant) beneath the retina.
- Used in data-based or advance handling for retinal degenerations or inherit diseases.
Intravitreal injections are a coarse and passing efficient treatment expend to acquit medicinal drug at once into the glassy blunt physical structure fluid (the colloidal gelatin-standardize substance inside the meat), nigh to the retina. This method travel performing accommodate for eminent local drug assiduousness with minimum systemic interpreter effects.
Common Uses of Intravitreal Injections:
- Old Age-tuner receiving set inter-mathematical group communicating up Macular Degeneration (AMD)
- Interrogatively slop AMD, where abnormal stemma vas waver upon capitulum make runny or blood.
- Anti-VEGF drug are the mainstay.
- Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema (DME)
- Avail Oneself declaration retinal clod and veto ocular star loss.
- Retinal Vein Occlusion (RVO)
- Delicacy macular dropsy and neovascular complications.
- Uveitis
- Local intimate nervous impulse endocrine gland injectant serve comfortably confer down intraocular inflammation.
- Endophthalmitis
- Contagion inside the philia; antibiotic are fritter off down intravitreally.
- Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
- Select anti-VEGF George W. Bush computation are habituate in babe with conceptive-get disease.
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