What is the Vitreous Mood?
The vitreous humor is a connective tissue with a gelatinous consistency, colorless and transparent, which occupies the cavity of the eyeball between the posterior surface of the lens and the retina (this cavity is called the vitreous chamber).
This mass helps to maintain the shape of the eye (fills the bulb), promotes the diffusion of nutrients and protects against microtraumas coming from the outside (absorbs shocks). Furthermore, being transparent, the vitreous humor represents a means of refraction and, as such, allows the unobstructed transmission of light up to the retina (dioptric function).
The most frequent pathology is the degeneration of the microstructure of the vitreous gel, closely related to age and to particular pathological processes (such as myopia, inflammation and retinopathies). In practice, a consequentiality of clinical events ranging from sinchisis ( fluidification of the vitreous gel), to syneresis (thickening of collagen fibers), up to the detachment of the vitreous.
