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. 2007 Jun;143(6):1032-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.01.057.

The prognostic influence of chronicity of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on anatomic success after reattachment surgery

Mark James  1 , Maeve O'Doherty, Stephen Beatty
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The prognostic influence of chronicity of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on anatomic success after reattachment surgery

Mark James et al. Am J Ophthalmol. 2007 Jun.

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate anatomic success after surgery for chronic retinal detachment.

Design: Retrospective, case series review.

Methods: 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.

Results: 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).

Conclusions: Chronicity of retinal detachment at presentation is an important and poor prognostic indicator for reattachment surgery.

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