Vitreoretinal or Ocular Trauma Top 10
- How can surgical techniques be improved to save sight for eyes damaged by injury?
- How can the risk of losing sight for people with retinal detachment be reduced?
- How can better interventions be developed that are effective in treating vitreous opacities/eye floaters?
- What causes retinal detachment and can it be prevented?
- Can more effective diagnostic tools be developed for assessing the vitreous and eye floaters?
- Can a functioning prosthetic eye be developed to replace an eye damaged by injury?
- How can epiretinal membrane/fibrosis be prevented or treated?
- Can stem cells be used to regrow an eye or part of an eye?
- What causes posterior vitreous detachment/vitreous syneresis?
- Are there methods to prevent and improve the treatment of macular holes?
The following questions were also discussed and put in order of priority at the workshop:
- How can vitreous detachment be prevented?
- What causes vitreous opacities/eye floaters?
- Can vision be restored for people whose retina was detached many years ago?
- Can an optic nerve damaged by injury be regenerated?
- How can vitreous opacities/eye floaters be prevented?
- What is the relationship (eg. prevalence, time-frame, causal factors) between vitreous syneresis, posterior vitreous detachment and retinal detachment?
- How can the vitreous be repaired or regenerated?
- What is the likelihood of a macular hole developing in the second eye once it is diagnosed in the first eye?
- What is the most effective detection method for alerting to the development of macular hole?
- What causes retinal detachment after cataract surgery?