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Medical Forum / General / Vision / March 2006Sclera Buckle for Myopic Degeneration?
Has anyone had Sclera buckle done for Myopic MD? How were your results? Thank you A scleral buckle is more likely to cause retinal detachment. It is not going to help myopic changes. dr grant My RS has been doing ove 20 years on Myopics. He said it slows down the porgression of the Myopic MD. You have never heard of this? Scleral buckles increase the length of the eyeball creating more myopia and are used routinely for retinal detachment. Don't expect a decrease in myopia. Thomas C. Kopan, O.D. > My RS has been doing ove 20 years on Myopics. He said it slows down > the porgression of the Myopic MD. You have never heard of this? > Scleral buckles increase the length of the eyeball creating more myopia > and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> My RS has been doing ove 20 years on Myopics. He said it slows down >> the porgression of the Myopic MD. You have never heard of this? I think you really mean something else. Sometimes a homograft is placed around the back of the eye over the posterior staphyloma (which is present in such cases). This reinforcement is intended to prevent further stretching, and apparently it sometimes does. Would an MD care to join in?  SignatureRobert T. Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com > My RS has been doing ove 20 years on Myopics. He said it slows down > the porgression of the Myopic MD. You have never heard of this? I have a scleral buckle. It increased both my myopia and my astigmatism. I wonder if this is a simple problem with terminology, and you don't mean "myopia" at all, but rather "macular degeneration", sometimes referred to as "MD". This has nothing to do with myopia in my limited knowledge. If so, I'm done with this thread, because my knowledge about MD could easily fit on the head of a pin! :-) SignatureDan Abel dabel@sonic.net Petaluma, California, USA |
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