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  2. Stem cell therapy for macular degeneration - Wikipedia

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    These retinal sheets, when transplanted over damaged corneas, stimulated repair and eventually restored vision. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In June 2005, a team led by Sheraz Daya at Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex , England, restored sight in forty patients using a similar technique with adult stem cells sourced from the patient, a relative, or a cadaver .

  3. Macular hole - Wikipedia

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    Macular hole on the right eye Classification of Vitreomacular Adhesion, Traction, and Macular Hole (IVTS 2013) Macular degeneration is a condition affecting the tissues lying under the retina, while a macular hole involves damage from within the eye, at the junction between the vitreous and the retina itself. There is no relationship between ...

  4. Vitrectomy - Wikipedia

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    Rates of these complications have been reported to be less than 0.5%. Lastly, although vitrectomy surgery is often done to correct retinal detachments, a subsequent retinal detachment is a possible complication as well. Rates of retinal detachment have been reported to be less than 5%.

  5. Macular degeneration - Wikipedia

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    The incidence of age-related macular degeneration and its associated features increases with age and is low in people <55 years of age. [101] Smoking is the strongest modifiable risk factor. [102] As of 2008, age-related macular degeneration accounts for more than 54% of all vision loss in the white population in the US. [103]

  6. Eye surgery - Wikipedia

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    Macular hole repair; Partial lamellar sclerouvectomy [25] Partial lamellar sclerocyclochoroidectomy; Partial lamellar sclerochoroidectomy; Posterior sclerotomy is an opening made into the vitreous through the sclera, as for detached retina or the removal of a foreign body. [26] Radial optic neurotomy; Macular translocation surgery through 360 ...

  7. Epiretinal membrane - Wikipedia

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    Epiretinal membrane or macular pucker is a disease of the eye in response to changes in the vitreous humor or more rarely, diabetes.Sometimes, as a result of immune system response to protect the retina, cells converge in the macular area as the vitreous ages and pulls away in posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).

  8. Choroidal neovascularization - Wikipedia

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    Layers of the eye, with the choroid labelled. Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is the creation of new blood vessels in the choroid layer of the eye.Choroidal neovascularization is a common cause of neovascular degenerative maculopathy (i.e. 'wet' macular degeneration) [1] commonly exacerbated by extreme myopia, malignant myopic degeneration, or age-related developments.

  9. Vitreomacular adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) is a human medical condition where the vitreous gel (or simply vitreous, AKA vitreous humour) of the human eye adheres to the retina in an abnormally strong manner.