Paediatric Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment: Clinical Features and Surgical Outcomes

Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce Şehnaz Özçalışkan MD, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Beyoğlu Eye Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Ophthalmology, Istanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 505 400 80 81 E-mail: drsehnaz@yahoo.com ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-3570 Re cei ved: 26.04.2020 Ac cep ted: 03.08.2020 Introduction Retinal detachment in the paediatric population is a rare clinical condition as compared to adults (1). Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in children constitutes 3 to 7 percent of all RRDs (2,3). Myopia, trauma, prior surgery, and congenital or developmental anomalies are defined as predisposing factors for RRD occurrence in children (4,5). Previous studies have shown that clinical features, surgical outcomes, and prognosis of RRD in children differ from adults (1,6,7). Systemic and ocular comorbidities, severe developmental disorders, macular involvement and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) are associated with poor prognosis in paediatric RRD (7-9).