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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2712</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.12143</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An Ayurvedic Protocol to Manage Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment and the Resultant Macular Hole - A Case Report&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Narayanan</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumar</surname><given-names>Aravind</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sukumaran</surname><given-names>Krishnendu</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>22</day><month>07</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>4)</volume><issue/><fpage>10</fpage><lpage>16</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Retinal detachment (RD) is when the neurosensory retina (NSR) separates from the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Sometimes it may be associated with a macular hole. The symptom of diminished vision seen in both conditions may be compared with Kacha in Ayurveda.&#13;
Case: The case of an 8-year-old boy who presented to the OPD of Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital with the blurring of vision and who was diagnosed with retinal detachment and the macular hole is presented here.&#13;
Intervention: The patient underwent two courses of inpatient management, which included Ayurvedic oral medicines, and external therapies for the eyes (Kriyakalpa) and head.&#13;
Results: Signs of improvement in visual acuity, fundus photography, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were observed at the end of both treatments.&#13;
Conclusion: The main aim of management was to preserve and give a better quality of vision for the patient. The results indicate the potential of Ayurvedic treatments to manage and maintain vision in RD and macular hole.&#13;
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