Clinical Trials

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults, ≥ 18 years of age.
• Willing and able to provide informed consent.
• Patients who have undergone unilateral scleral buckle only surgery (i.e., no vitrectomy) with a 360° encircling band.

Exclusion Criteria: 

• Individuals < 18 years of age.
• Diagnosis of glaucoma or glaucoma suspect.
• Unilateral ocular hypertension.
• Difference in lens status (i.e., pseudophakic vs phakic) between the two eyes.
• Preoperative (pre-buckle) anisometropia > 2.5 D.
• Current use of steroid medications (oral, topical, inhaled, injected, or other).
• Use of IOP-lowering medications.
• Active or chronic uveitis.
• Diseases or processes which affect the iridocorneal angle, including but not limited to neovascular glaucoma, iridocorneal endothelial syndrome, peripheral anterior synechiae, etc.
• Monocular status (enucleated or phthisical fellow eye, or fellow eye with visual acuity less than 20/100).
• History of previous vitreoretinal surgery in either eye.
• Inability to lay completely supine for the required time period.