The prognostic influence of chronicity of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on anatomic success after reattachment surgery.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
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Abstract
To investigate anatomic success after surgery for chronic retinal detachment. Retrospective, case series review. The surgical outcomes of reattachment surgery for 36 eyes of 35 patients with chronic retinal detachments are reported and are compared with the outcomes for 129 fresh retinal detachments. After exclusion of retinal detachments secondary to retinal dialysis and of cases with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), success after a single procedure was seen in eight of 14 (57.1%) chronic retinal detachments, and this compares with 92 of 107 (86.0%) fresh retinal detachments (P = .0161). Chronicity of retinal detachment at presentation is an important and poor prognostic indicator for reattachment surgery.
Medical subject headings
- Cryosurgery
- Retina
- Retinal Detachment
- Scleral Buckling
- Vitrectomy