In today’s episode we will show you the steps for implantation of a 276 tire along with a 240 band and a 270 sleeve without subretinal fluid drainage. There are a number of scleral buckling elements that surgeons can choose from. During the video we will discuss some of the pros and cons of using a 276 tire and in subsequent videos we will show you implantation of other buckle elements. The patient in this video is a young phakic patient without a PVD who presents with a superonasal macula-involving retinal detachment that appears to be chronic based on the pigmented demarcation line. The subretinal fluid has now broken through this demarcation line. The causative break is a single small atrophic hole in the superonasal quadrant and the fluid is shallow peripherally.
