Large full thickness, 700 microns, extensive surrounding subretinal fluid, yellow deposits on RPE within hole, mild epiretinal membrane.

My question is would you recommend gas or silicone oil to treat the macular hole?

Right eye has developed cataracts to the point of cloudy vision.  Left eye has a cataract also, but as the transplant surgery was only 3 weeks or so ago and so that eye is still healing and vision can’t be measured.

My question is:  can cataract surgery be performed after someone has had corneal transplants?  If so, what are the possible negatives in this situation? Will it prevent in any way future corneal transplants as they become necessary? Let me add that after right eye surgery the vision was crystal clear with a contact lens – but recently vision quickly degraded due to aggressive cataract.

We are advised by ophthalmologist that this aggressive and fast growing cataract issue was caused by the steroids/anti rejection drops.

1) What is the expected survival time of DSEK or DMEK grafts? Can DSEK or DMEK be repeated on a patient if the first graft wears away?

2) If everything else fails, can we turn to artificial cornea? How long do they survive?

3) Can full PK be performed if DSEK/DMEK fails?

In January 2011, the retinal specialist administered a half dose photodynamic therapy with visudyne.

In January 2012,  OCT report showed ILM-RPE thickness 326um. My vision has not improved.

My questions:

1. Should I repeat visudyne therapy or directly go for Lucentis now?

2. Half dose or full dose visudyne ?

3. Or should I try combined Visudyne + Lucentis?

4. What is the risk level comparing between visudyne and lucentis ? which treatment will have lesser risk and which treatment will give better healing result?

5. If my case is Central Serous Retinopathy, will visudyne or lucentis be able to help as we had waited for almost a year before the specialist decided to do the half dose visudyne in Jan’2011?

I am looking for an eye doctor in Pensylvania that can fit me with the new KeraSoft IC lenses.

Thank you for you help. I have called several places and no one is working with them.

Wouldn’t a solution to the corneal defects be to replace the cornea? Having had 4 surgeries (all for esotropia) and the 2 for RK, I think RLE is risky.  My doctor is not especially good at explaining everything, and I am a bit unnerved by more surgery of that type which would enter from the periphery of my cornea.

I am not sure what to ask, but hope that the technology is getting to the point where I could just replace my surgically damaged corneas with rebuilt ones from my own adult stem cells. I believe just by fixing my corneas a lot of the halos, starbursts and night blindness could be diminished.

Is this a possibility yet? I am trying to research all my options.

Is this accurate? Is there a 25% chance these medications will close the macular hole? I could find no mention of these medications for closing macular holes online. We got a second opinion at a prestigious teaching hospital that specializes in eye care, and were told that the medication was a waste, and that we should have a vitrectomy. My wife is only 39, and was born with bad eyes.

I was using Lumigan, which my primary insurance covered, but my secondary would not cover the remainder, roughly an extra 40 dollars a month. I was then switched to Timolol. I do not like it as I have to use it twice a day and it burns. I also feel light headed and very tired. Is this normal? I do not take any other medications. I will follow up with my Dr. next week to check to see if the pressure is still being controlled. It was 32 and reduced to 23 with Lumigan. But due to cost and what my insurance would not cover, I had to switch.

Any feed back would be greatly appreciated.

I have always had an astigmatism in my left eye, and the doctor has recommended the toric lens implant.

My question is this: if I’m still going to need “readers” afterwards, why not just get the regular lens and just continue wearing my glasses? Opinions?