Abstract
Purpose:
To evaluate anatomic and functional outcomes of patients treated with pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with scleral buckling versus PPV with inferior retinectomy for treatment of cases of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) associated with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) and inferior retinal breaks.
Methods:
Retrospective, comparative, interventional, single-center study. Fifty-one eyes of fifty-one patients with primary RRD associated with inferior breaks and PVR grade C1 or more were reviewed over 3 years. Twenty-one eyes underwent PPV with encircling band 360° and thirty eyes underwent PPV with primary inferior retinectomy. The primary outcome was final anatomic success. Secondary outcomes included change in visual acuity, primary anatomical success, the mean number of operations, and incidence of postoperative complications.
Results:
Primary anatomical success of 85.7% was achieved in buckle group compared to 83.3% in retinectomy group (p = 0.82). Mean duration of follow-up and mean number of operations was 9.8 ± 2.26 and 9.97 ± 2.44 months; 1.24 ± 0.62 and 1.3 ± 0.75 in buckle group and retinectomy group, respectively, achieving final anatomical success of 95.2% for the buckle group and 90% for the retinectomy group with no statistical significant difference (p = 0.49). Although visual acuity (logMAR) was better in the buckle group in the 1st month, it became nearly equal thereafter during the follow-up period (p = 0.5).
Conclusion:
Similar anatomical and functional outcomes were achieved by combining PPV with scleral buckle or inferior retinectomy for treatment of primary RRD with PVR and inferior breaks.
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Abu Eleinen, K.G., Mohalhal, A.A., Ghalwash, D.A. et al. Vitrectomy with scleral buckling versus with inferior retinectomy in treating primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with PVR and inferior breaks. Eye 32, 1839–1844 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-018-0194-0
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