Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is an eye condition that leads to blindness and can currently only be addressed with surgery. A team led by research hospital Massachusetts Eye and Ear and German ...

PVR is scar tissue that forms inside the eye, commonly after eye trauma, that can contract and detach the retina. This pathologic scar tissue response, rather than the eye injury itself, is what can ...

A new preclinical study by Mass Eye and Ear investigators showed that a novel mRNA-based therapy may be able to prevent blindness and scarring from proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) following a ...

In proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), abnormal blood vessels and scar tissue grow on the surface of the retina and also attach firmly to the back surface of the vitreous. The vitreous then ...

Why did a 38-year-old woman with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) develop choroidal Yasunari nodules in both eyes? That's what Danish clinicians had to figure out when the patient presented for a ...

Researchers have developed an AI tool that makes retinal imaging 100 times faster. Retinal diseases are one of the leading causes of blindness; however, imaging cells in the retina in detail can be ...