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Rehan M. Hussain, MD

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Rehan M. Hussain, MD

I am a board certified ophthalmologist with fellowship training in vitreoretinal surgery

12/11/2025

Nice image of an Akreos sutured lens in a patient with history of retinal detachment repair by vitrectomy.

12/09/2025

I’m proud of my med student team for their hard work on this review paper. Long term visual outcomes in wet AMD patients leave much to be desired, despite recent advancements in longer-lasting anti-VEGF agents, which have improved treatment compliance. Hopefully future research can focus more on improving our outcomes for geographic atrophy and submacular fibrosis, which limit visual acuity in this population.

11/27/2025

November is diabetic eye disease awareness month! It is very important for diabetics to get regular eye exams to detect and treat diabetic retinopathy before it becomes advanced.

These 3 photos show the evolution of a type 1 diabetic with proliferative diabetic retinopathy in the left eye.

The first picture shows many large areas of neovascularization in the retina, along with many dot blot hemorrhages and micro aneurysms. Vision was 20/25 at this point and the patient did not realize trouble was brewing. The risk was high to develop vitroeus hemorrhage and tractional retinal detachment. Treatment with panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) was recommended to prevent progression of the disease.

The second picture shows a large pre-retinal hemorrhage that developed after one session of PRP. The PRP caused regression and contraction of some neovascular membranes, which is the goal, but can lead to bleeding from these fragile vessels. Vision dropped significantly to Hand Motions.

The third picture shows the same eye 1 month after vitrectomy, removal of the pre-retinal membranes and more PRP. The neovascular membranes have regressed significantly and traction has been removed from the retina! Vision has improved back to baseline and the patient is much less likely to suffer blindness now that PRP is complete.

On this Thanksgiving, I am grateful for this good outcome!

11/16/2025

This is a scleral buckle with a radial element from 6-7 supporting an atrophic retinal hole. The patient was a young high myope with a chronic low lying inferior retinal detachment (picture 2), which made her an ideal scleral buckle candidate.

10/16/2025

Thank you .mice for the opportunity to contribute to this article about hydrogels in the retina space. Hopefully, hydrogel-based sustained delivery systems can be another useful tool help reduce treatment burden in our many patients that receive intravitreal injections!

08/03/2025

Highlights from the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists. Always great to catch up with friends and exchange ideas. As co-chair of the scientific poster contest with Dr. Jessica Lee, I got to review a lot of exceptional posters and learned a lot in the process. Congrats to all the top 10 poster award winners and thanks to our committee that judged 230 posters! I’m already looking forward to next year’s meeting in Montreal, one of my favorite cities.

05/11/2025

It’s a privilege to be able to have such an impact on a patient’s life. Being a retina surgeon can have its share of challenges, but can also be very rewarding. This online review was so touching that I thought I would share.

04/01/2025

My favorite professional accomplishment to date 🤩. But in all seriousness, small kind gestures from patients can go a long way in making a busy retina clinic a rewarding experience. The first gift is from a friendly patient who always tells me how grateful he is to get injections for his wet AMD because his father went blind from the disease. The second patient gave me some locally produced honey…because why not? I drive about 90 minutes each way to my Peru/Ottawa clinics but the very nice patients and staff in the small towns definitely make it worth it.

01/29/2025

This RAM (retinal arterial macroanurysm) and subhyaloid hemorrhage reminds me of a sailboat ⛵️ drifting off into the sunset 🌅 .

01/20/2025

Dislocated crystalline lens (bottom of picture) in a gas filled eye following retinal detachment repair. Blunt trauma in the postoperative period caused the lens to fall into the vitreous cavity. A second surgery was performed to remove the lens and place a secondary intraocular lens.

12/25/2024

Proud of this team of students: , , and .sayed for their hard work on this review paper about Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors, which are being investigated as a longer lasting treatment option for our retina injection patients. Feel free to check it out in the winter edition of International Ophthalmology Clinics!

12/09/2024

Inferotemporally dislocated crystalline lens in a 25 year old male with Marfans Syndrome. This inherited condition affects connective tissue, resulting in weakened blood vessels, heart, eyes and bones.

The lens was gradually slipping out of place over the years and best corrected vision had declined to 20/80 with a contact lens. The other eye has no light perception vision since infancy, so numerous surgeons were hesitant to recommend surgery, which is reasonable. However since the patient was no longer able to function at work, he was eager for a treatment.

I performed pars plana vitrectomy, lensectomy and 360 barrier retinal laser to prevent retinal detachment. He is aphakic but doing well with his contact lens, which he is used to wearing for many years. I avoided placing an anterior chamber intraocular lens (ACIOL) because he is young and this increases risk of corneal decompensation over time. Also an ACIOL could worsen his glaucoma. I also avoided a scleral fixated IOL because Marfans patients have abnormally thin sclera.

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1100 W. Central Road, LL2
Arlington Heights, IL
60005

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Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 1pm

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