Retinal detachment - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic After sealing a retinal tear with cryopexy or laser photocoagulation, a gas bubble is injected into the vitreous The bubble applies gentle pressure, helping a detached section of the retina to reattach to the eyeball If your retina has detached, you'll need surgery to repair it
What Is a Gas Bubble in the Eye After Retinal Surgery? A gas bubble in the eye is a small pocket of medical-grade gas that a surgeon injects into the interior of the eye to hold the retina in place during healing It acts like an internal splint, pressing the retina against the back wall of the eye so it can reattach and seal
Positioning After Retinal Surgery - American Academy of Ophthalmology After some types of retinal surgery, you will need to keep your head in a face-down or sideways position This is because a gas bubble has been put in your eye Recovering with your head down allows the bubble to float into the correct position The bubble holds the retina in place to heal correctly
Pneumatic Retinopexy - Johns Hopkins Medicine If you have pneumatic retinopexy, your eye doctor will inject an expanding gas bubble into your eye He or she will position you so that the bubble floats over the detached area and pushes it against the back of your eye
Pneumatic Retinopexy: Benefits, Risks, Procedure Treatment PR involves injecting a gas bubble into the vitreous cavity of the eye, which applies pressure to push the detached retina back into place Once the retina is reattached, laser photocoagulation or cryotherapy is used to seal the tear, allowing the retina to heal naturally
Pneumatic Retinopexy for Retinal Detachments - FLEI Pneumatic Retinopexy is an office based, non-incisional, surgical procedure used to repair “select” cases of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments; and is often an alternative to scleral buckling and vitrectomy
Pneumatic Retinopexy - Retina Center of San Diego Injection of gas bubble: A small gas bubble is injected into the vitreous cavity of the eye The gas bubble rises and floats, putting pressure on the detached area of the retina The gas bubble serves to push the detached retina back into its normal position against the back wall of the eye
Pneumatic Retinopexy - My Retina Health Pneumatic retinopexy is a minimally invasive, office-based surgical procedure used to repair certain types of retinal detachments It involves injecting a gas bubble (usually SF6 or C3F8) into the vitreous cavity, which then presses the detached retina against the underlying retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)
Pneumatic Retinopexy - EyeWiki Pneumatic retinopexy (PR) was introduced by Hilton and Grizzard in 1986 as an outpatient procedure to repair rhegmatogenous retinal detachments [1] It supplemented the preexisting operative procedures used to repair rhegmatogenous detachments including scleral buckling and pars plana vitrectomy