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. 2003 Feb;110(2):427-31.
doi: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01744-X.

Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and uveitis

Frank T Kerkhoff  1 , Querin J Lamberts, Pieter R van den Biesen, Aniki Rothova
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Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and uveitis

Frank T Kerkhoff et al. Ophthalmology. 2003 Feb.

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the frequency, high-risk factors, and visual prognosis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in patients with uveitis.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Participants: We included 1387 consecutive patients with uveitis who consulted our uveitis clinic from January 1990 through December 1997 of whom 43 patients (46 eyes) with RRD were identified. The retinal detachment (RD) controls were 212 consecutive patients with RRD (221 eyes, first occurrence of RD, not associated with uveitis) who were admitted for surgery in the period from April 1999 to April 2000. The uveitis control group consisted of 150 age-matched patients (210 eyes) selected from the entire uveitis series.

Intervention: Retrospective analysis of clinical data.

Main outcome measures: The presence of RRD and eventual risk factors for RRD, such as myopia, retinal lattice degeneration, prior intraocular surgery, anatomic location of uveitis, its specific diagnosis, and clinical manifestations. Furthermore, the surgical and nonsurgical outcomes of RRD, as well as the results of various treatment regimens, were analyzed.

Results: RRD was identified in 3.1% of the patients with uveitis. RRD was most frequently associated with panuveitis (6.6%). RRD was associated more frequently with infectious (7.6%) than noninfectious uveitis (2.1%). At the onset of RRD, uveitis was active in most (46%) affected eyes. Proliferative vitreoretinopathy was present in 30% of the uveitic RRD eyes at presentation in contrast to 12% of the RRD control eyes. In uveitic RRD, the retina was reattached in 59% of eyes with a single operation; the final anatomic reattachment rate was 88%. Finally, a visual acuity of less than 20/200 was present in 71% of the uveitic RRD eyes, 10% of which had no light perception.

Conclusions: We discovered a high prevalence of RRD in patients with active panuveitis and infectious uveitis and document that uveitis in itself is a risk factor for the development of RRD. The visual prognosis of RRD in uveitis was poor because of the uveitis itself and the frequent development of proliferative vitreoretinopathy.

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  • Retinal detachment and uveitis.
    Jalali S, Thomas R. Jalali S, et al. Ophthalmology. 2004 Aug;111(8):1623. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.05.010. Ophthalmology. 2004. PMID: 15289005 No abstract available.

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