Macular Pucker Surgery: Procedure and Recovery - Vision Center
2023年10月10日 · What is Macular Pucker Surgery? Macular pucker surgery (vitrectomy) is an outpatient procedure performed on the eye’s retina to remove the abnormal membrane causing a wrinkle or pucker. 1 The surgeon removes the vitreous gel from the eye cavity and peels the abnormal membrane from the retina’s surface using precision surgical instruments.
Macular Pucker: What It Is, Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
A macular pucker is another term for an epiretinal membrane. This piece of scar tissue on the retina may cause your vision to be distorted or blurry. Surgery is the most complete treatment, but your provider may treat you with magnifiers or glasses. Retinal Disease Treatment.
Can a Macular Pucker Be Fixed? - WebMD
2022年9月20日 · How Do You Treat Macular Pucker? The type of treatment you get might depend on your macular pucker symptoms. If you have mild symptoms, you might not need any treatment.
What is a Macular Pucker? - American Academy of Ophthalmology
2023年12月11日 · Your ophthalmologist will talk about these risks and how vitrectomy surgery may help you. A macular pucker (also called epiretinal membrane) is a layer of scar tissue that grows on the surface of the retina, particularly the macula, which is the cent.
Macular Pucker - National Eye Institute
2023年11月15日 · Symptoms: Blurry or wavy vision. Diagnosis: Dilated eye exam. Treatment: None for mild cases, surgery for serious cases. What is a macular pucker? A macular pucker is a rare eye condition that can make your vision wavy or distorted. Most of the time, experts don’t know what causes it.
Macular Pucker: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment - Verywell Health
2023年9月13日 · Eye drops and laser surgery will not help with macular pucker. Instead, your optometrist may ask you to return for more frequent exams to monitor it. This is important because macular pucker can become worse. It also can start out affecting just one eye and then also occur in your second eye.
Macular Pucker Surgery & Recovery - Eye Center of Texas
Macular pucker surgery addresses macular pucker, a condition in which scar tissue (called an epiretinal membrane, or ERM) forms on the retina. This condition is frequently age-related, slow-progressing, and can even go away on its own.
Macular Pucker: Diagnosis and Treatment - BrightFocus
2021年7月7日 · A macular pucker, sometimes called epiretinal membrane, is caused by distortion of the macula. Learn about surgery, treatments & diagnosis, and watch video.
Macular Pucker: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - NVISION Eye Centers
2024年8月26日 · How Does Surgery for a Macular Pucker Work? Vitrectomy is a surgical procedure to remove some or all of the vitreous humor from your eye. This procedure is done to prevent the vitreous humor from pulling on the retina.
What Is Vitrectomy? - American Academy of Ophthalmology
2024年10月1日 · Vitrectomy is a type of eye surgery used to treat problems of the eye’s retina and vitreous. In this surgery, an ophthalmologist may: remove blood or other substance keeping light from focusing properly on the retina. remove scar tissue that is wrinkling or tearing the retina and causing poor vision.