The risk of you having a RD after a buckle is less than a person without a RD having cataract surgery. Just have your retina surgeon look at your retina before and then a week or two after surgery. A much bigger risk is a RD in your other eye.
JCH MD
Dr Hagan:
Do you mean I am safer to have cataract surgery than people without surgery ?
Is it because I have a buckle ?
Why do the cataract surgery can cause bigger risk of RD to my other eye ?
Thanks
Dr. Hagan means that your risk of having a retinal detachment from the cataract surgery is lower than a person having cataract surgery who has not had a retinal detachment before.
The cataract surgery does NOT increase the risk of a RD in your other (non-RD & non-cataract) eye. What does increase your risk is having had a RD in one of your eyes, so the other non-RD eye is at greater risk of having a RD than others who have never had a RD.
I made appointments with 2 cataract surgeon (a few months later). Both scretaries made the appointment for me express some concern on my RD history and told me that the surgeon may eventually don't recommend me to do the surgery (depends on the visit)
Just want to know if there is any difference in terms of risk for cataract surgery for patients with scleral buckle to those only with PPV.
Thanks
Thanks for your clear explanation
I am looking at cataract surgery in both eyes, one week apart after havingRD in both eyes in 2013. There were two choices presented to me regarding cataract surgery and am not sure which to choose. Either traditional or laser. It seems laser is more precise and less cutting but the surgeon felt that with my strong nearsighted eyes, traditional would be better. Any thoughts on this?
just answered this question on your other post JCH MD
I have operated on scores of patients with buckles and never had a RD after cataract surgery. But your risk of a RD in your other eye even without cataract surgery is as high as 6-10%. A truly experienced cataract surgeon will not be fearful of the buckled eye. The unbuckled eye would be at higher risk.
JCH MD