by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | 12, Abr, 2021 | Retina |
Uveitis is an intraocular inflammation that occurs in the uvea, between the retina and the sclera and, of the different types that can occur, the most common is anterior uveitis, iridocyclitis or iritis if it only affects the iris. Área Oftalmológica...
by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | 18, Mar, 2020 | Retina |
Cellular waste can be concentrated in the ocular structure that the body is not able to eliminate through the blood. All of these deposits are called drusen, and they can be found in the macula or the optic nerve. The retina is the tissue sensitive to ...
by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | 18, Mar, 2020 | Eye health |
Drusen are cellular deposits that the body is unable to properly filter through the bloodstream. These debris can be classified as macular drusen or optic nerve drusen. Unlike macular drusen, drusen of ...
by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | 9, Mar, 2020 | Retina |
The appearance of flashes of light in the eye is a very frequent reason why dozens of people visit the ophthalmologist daily. It is about lights that appear from nowhere in the campor visual and lasting less than a second. Also, these flashes of light ...
by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | 2, Jul, 2018 | Eye health |
Diabetes is a degenerative disease that over the years causes damage to different parts of the body, including the eyeball. But do you know how diabetes affects sight? This affects in many ways and it is important to highlight that the risk of...
by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | Jan 9, 2012 | Retina |
Regenerating the retina or replacing it with a chip is one of the most exciting topics in current ophthalmic research. Previous experiences were in the line of stem cells but, the reality is that multiple difficulties have appeared that slow their ...
by Dr. Joan Casado Martin. Director of the Retina and Vitreous Unit | 11, Abr, 2011 | Retina |
Yesterday appeared in the press (La Vanguardia, the news that a laboratory in Japan has already been able to isolate retinal cells with the capacity to regenerate the retina, a story that includes the work of Yoshiki Sasai published in Nature. I think it is something positive. ..