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What causes a vitreous haemorrhage?
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Vaughan Tanner, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, lists the most common causes of a vitreous haemorrhage. The symptoms of vitreous haemorrhage include floaters, haziness or complete vision loss. If you’re concerned about any of your symptoms, enquire today.
Vaughan Tanner, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, lists the most common causes of a vitreous haemorrhage. The symptoms of vitreous haemorrhage include floaters, haziness or complete vision loss. If you’re concerned about any of your symptoms, enquire today.
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Two main causes of vitreous haemorrhage are diabetic retinopathy and posterior vitreous detachment. Both very different conditions. In diabetic retinopathy, new vessels grow on the retina in diabetic patients, and unfortunately, they can grow out of control, leaking blood into the vitreous jelly. This is a fairly urgent condition requiring vitrectomy and usually laser surgery. Bleeds in patients who aren’t diabetic are often associated with the degeneration of the vitreous gel. This happens in all of us as we get older and is known as posterior vitreous detachment. If you’re unlucky, when the gel detaches from the retina, it pulls hard, occasionally breaking a blood vessel and creating a vitreous haemorrhage.
