[The vitreous and vitreoretinal interface: natural history and associated retinal diseases]

Such significant correlations have been found between vitreal changes and retinal breaks that retinal detachment is now considered as a vitreoretinal disease. Concerning this issue, not only the posterior vitreous detachment seems to play an important role in the occurrence of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment but also the vitreoretinal interactions themself seem to be important in the pathogenesis of cystoid and diabetic macular edema, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, macular pucker, idiopathic macular hole and macular disease associated with optic disk pit. It seemed therefore useful to the author an updated review on alterations of the vitreoretinal interface and associated ocular diseases.