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. 2021 Oct;35(10):2889-2890.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-01187-1. Epub 2020 Sep 22.

Emergency retinal detachment surgery during Covid-19 pandemic: a national survey and local review

Haseeb Akram  1 , Mohammad Samir Dowlut  2 , Niral Karia  2 , Aman Chandra  2
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Emergency retinal detachment surgery during Covid-19 pandemic: a national survey and local review

Haseeb Akram et al. Eye (Lond). 2021 Oct.
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Fig. 1. Change in the number of retinal detachment presentations in units with full capacity: N = 31.
RD retinal detachment; out of 50 respondents, 31 had answered that they were able to provide vitreoretinal treatment at full capacity. Analysis shows 67.7% of these had decreased number of RD presentations.
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