Causes of Retinal detachment

Causes of Retinal detachment (Diseases Database):

The follow list shows some of the possible medical causes of Retinal detachment that are listed by the Diseases Database:

• Stickler syndrome
• Juvenile retinoschisis
• Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
• Knobloch syndrome
• Retinal perforations
• Wagner vitreoretinal degeneration syndrome
• Myopia
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Choroidal melanoma
• Lattice degeneration of retina
• Scleritis
• Alezzandrini syndrome
• Miliary aneurysms of retina
• Moore-Federman syndrome

Retinal detachment Causes: Risk Factors

The following conditions have been cited in various sources as potentially causal risk factors related to Retinal detachment:

• Eye injury
• Head injury
• Accidents
• Car accident
• Diabetes
• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Diabetic retinopathy
• more risk factors »

Retinal detachment: Related Medical Conditions

To research the causes of Retinal detachment, consider researching the causes of these these diseases that may be similar, or associated with Retinal detachment:

• Critical eye emergency
• Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
• Rhegmatogenous RD
• Exudative retinal detachment
• Exudative RD
• Serous retinal detachment
• Serous RD
• Tractional retinal detachment
• Tractional RD
• Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
• Sickle cell disease
• Advanced retinopathy of prematurity

Retinal detachment: Causes and Types

Causes of Types of Retinal detachment: Review the cause informationfor the various types of Retinal detachment:

• Partial retinal detachment
• Total retinal detachment
• Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment - detachment due to a retinal tear
• Tractional retinal detachment - detachment due to the retina being pulled away
• Exudative retinal detachment - detachment due to fluid under the retina without any retinal tear
• more types...»

Causes of Broader Categories of Retinal detachment: Review the causal information about the various more general categories of medical conditions:

• Eye conditions
• Retina Conditions
• Eye and vision conditions
• Head conditions
• more types...»

Retinal detachment as a complication of other conditions:

Other conditions that might have Retinal detachment as a complication may, potentially, be an underlying cause of Retinal detachment. Our database lists the following as having Retinal detachment as a complication of that condition:

• Acute retinal necrosis syndrome
• Aphakia
• Autoimmune uveitis
• CAMFAK syndrome
• Cervenka's syndrome
• Coats Disease
• Congenital X-linked retinoschisis
• CRAPB
• Electrical burns
• Exudative retinopathy familial, autosomal dominant
• Exudative retinopathy familial, autosomal recessive
• Exudative retinopathy familial, X-linked, recessive
• Exudative retinopathy, familial
• Exudative vitreoretinopathy 3
• Exudative vitreoretinopathy 4
• Familial Granulomatosis, Blau type
• Familial, Systemic, Juvenile Granulomatosis
• Granulomatous arthritis of childhood
• Intraocular melanoma
• Juvenile Retinoschisis
• Marfan syndrome
• Melanoma of the choroid
• Midline craniofacial anomalies and morning glory disc anomaly
• Myopia 1
• Myopia 10
• Myopia 11
• Myopia 12
• Myopia 13
• Myopia 14
• Myopia 15
• Myopia 16
• Myopia 2
• Myopia 3
• Myopia 4
• Myopia 5
• Myopia 6
• Myopia 7
• Myopia 8
• Myopia 9
• Pediatric granulomatous arthritis
• Posterior vitreous detachment
• Punctate inner choroidopathy
• Retinopathy
• Retinoschisis
• Retinoschisis, autosomal dominant
• Retinoschisis, juvenile
• Retinoschisis, Juvenile, X-Linked
• Retinoschisis, X-linked
• Retinoschisis1, X-linked, Juvenile
• Senile Retinoschisis
• Stickler Syndrome
• Synovitis granulomatous with uveitis and cranial neuropathies
• Uveitis
• Vitreous detachment
• Volubilis, syndrome du
• Whooping Cough

Retinal detachment as a symptom:

Conditions listing Retinal detachment as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Retinal detachment. Our database lists the following as having Retinal detachment as a symptom of that condition:

• Alezzandrini syndrome
• Anophthalmia -- megalocornea -- cardiopathy -- skeletal anomalies
• Anophthalmos with limb anomalies
• Chromosome 6, trisomy 6q
• Chromosome 6q duplication syndrome
• Cohen-Hayden syndrome
• Criswick-Schepens syndrome
• Cysticercosis
• Diaphragmatic hernia -- exomphalos -- corpus callosum agenesis
• Dup (1) (q42-qter) & del (18p)
• Duplication 6q
• Dwarfism -- stiff joint -- ocular abnormalities
• Eales Disease
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, 6B
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, classic type
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, kyphoscoliosis type
• Faciooculoacousticorenal syndrome
• HARD syndrome
• HARD syndrome (Hydrocephalus -- agyria -- retinal dysplasia)
• Incontinentia Pigmenti
• Kniest dysplasia
• Knobloch syndrome
• Lujan-Fryns syndrome
• Marfan-Like syndrome
• Microspherophakia with hernia
• Noble-Bass-Sherman syndrome
• Norrie Disease
• Norrie syndrome
• Pork tapeworm
• Protein S acquired deficiency
• Proteus like syndrome mental retardation eye defect
• Retinal degeneration
• Retinopathy -- anaemia- CNS anomalies
• Retinopathy -- anemia -- CNS anomalies
• Retinopathy of prematurity
• Revesz Debuse syndrome
• Revesz Syndrome
• Small syndrome
• Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration
• Spondylo-ocular syndrome
• Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, congenita
• Stickler Syndrome
• Stickler Syndrome, type I
• Stickler Syndrome, type II
• Stickler's syndrome
• Vitreoretinal degeneration
• Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome
• Wagner syndrome 1
• Wagner-Stickler Syndrome
• Walker-Warburg Syndrome

Medications or substances causing Retinal detachment:

The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible causes of Retinal detachment as a symptom. This list is incomplete and various other drugs or substances may cause your symptoms. Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using, including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.

• Echothiophate Iodide
• Phospholine Iodide
• Demecarium Bromide
• Humorsol
• Miostat
• more drugs...»

See full list of 18 medications causing Retinal detachment

Medical news summaries relating to Retinal detachment:

The following medical news items are relevant to causes of Retinal detachment:

• New drug prevents vision loss
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Related information on causes of Retinal detachment:

As with all medical conditions, there may be many causal factors. Further relevant information on causes of Retinal detachment may be found in:

• Risk factors for Retinal detachment
• Medications that may cause Retinal detachment
• Hidden causes of Retinal detachment