Talk:Retinal detachment

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This link "A diary of retinal detachment" was removed from the main article because it points to a personal webpage. The webpage documents the recovery of a gentleman who had surgery to fix a detached retina. The site contains photos that simulate what his vision what like before and after the surgery, a series of photos of his eye during the healing process, and a postoperative diary. The information was very useful to my family as my sister just had to have emergency surgery for this condition. (Untreated, this condition can very quickly lead to blindness.) I believe that the information could be useful to other wikipedians as well, so I propose that we at least keep the link here in the discussion page. Regards, --colibri-- 17:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)--colibri--

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Untreated, it's fatal? Do you have some documentation on this? Joyous 00:35, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)

Maybe if it makes you drive off a cliff....- Nunh-huh 00:39, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Edits

The language is quite technical in places - we could use some links or re-writing to explain in easier English what some of the medical terms mean. The infobox is baffling - what does it do? --Wtshymanski 18:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Risks

Retinal detachment is listed as symptom or result in SLE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythematosus#Eyes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.47.214.68 (talk) 08:13, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Mess prevention

I've tried to tidy up the 'Prevention' section, which had frankly become a confusing mess (is it really helpful to consider activities such as defecation and space travel alongside each other??). Any suggestions?

Goldman 2011

I see that several of the references cite a "Goldman 2011" with page numbers. However, I am unable to find any reference to such a book (I assume it to be a book with pages numbers in the 2000's) anywhere online. I am also unable to find a reference in the positive to THC causing retinal detachment other than this Wikipedia article, which is what prompted me to look for this citation in the first place. As a matter of fact, I am unable to find a SINGLE reference to THC causing or even being a risk factor for retinal detachment, in fact exactly the opposite is said by several medical institutions as shown by an easy google search. The person responsible for adding this specific item has only ever made one edit on all of wikipedia, to add this information that seems to be the opposite of what searchable information in the internet shows. Can anyone verify what this source "Goldman 2011" is, and if you have access to it, can you verify the citation for this item? As a matter of fact, I am going to go ahead and remove it pending citation verification. Iueras (talk) 04:09, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Take a look over at Amazon.com Goldman's Cecil Medicine, 24th ed..--(Loriendrew) talk 02:16, 18 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loriendrew (talk • contribs)

Thanks for that, Loriendrew. Unfortunately, without more context I cannot even be certain what Goldman the citations in the article reference. There seem to be at least 3 different Goldmans that this could be referencing. I got that many different Goldmans, with PhDs in medicine, and that publish, with a 30 second search -- so I am sure there are more out there as well. Most of that is somewhat tangential anyways. I left the rest of the causes listed in the section in question in place, even though they use the same citation, because other sources support those. I am not sure where this reference to THC being a causal factor came from, as everything I could find said the opposite -- that it was beneficial in the treatment of detachment because of the well-documented lowering of intraocular pressure THC effects. All other politics and preferences aside, the lowering of IOP is a well-known and well-documented effect of THC. So I conclude that the statement I removed was included by mistake or misinterpretation, and only wished to verify against the source cited specifically. I did not log in by mistake before I made the edit, sorry about that. And I realize now that my language at the end of my first edit on this talk page was less than clear. I am not removing the reference as a whole, only the statement I questioned. Iueras (talk) 04:09, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Although my med library has the 24th edition, finding it is impossible. Probably some resident walked off with it. The 23rd edition has absolutely nothing about any causative effects. I did a full multi-database lit search and found absolutely nothing regarding THC and retinal detachment. I would say go ahead and delete the cause and reference, but make sure in your edit summary to say to look at this talk page. I initially reverted your deletion because you did not give a valid reason in the edit summary.--(Loriendrew) talk 19:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loriendrew (talk • contribs)

I checked a digital copy of the 24th edition on 21 November 2013.The claims are not in this edition. I removed it from the page. Superkuh (talk) 05:06, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Title

There are three types of retinal detachment (RD): rhegmatogenous (caused by retinal breaks), tractional (caused by pulling on the retina, usually from scar tissue), and serous (caused by leaking blood vessels under the retina from inflammation, cancer, etc). This article is mainly about rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and should be identified as such. RRD is the most common type of RD and, therefore, is commonly just referred to as "retinal detachment. Therefore, I would not recommend changing the title. I do think clarification would be helpful. I am new to editing this site and do not know the best way to accomplish this task. Medwiki100 (talk) 11:54, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

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