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Retinal detachment
Author(s) -
Törnquist Ragnar,
Törnquist Per
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1988.tb04052.x
Subject(s) - retinal detachment , medicine , scleral buckling , ophthalmology , visual acuity , surgery , retinal
. Surgical results and complications were studied retrospectively in 590 cases of retinal detachment in a population‐based material of 538 patients. Of the 590 cases 96.3% were operated upon, and 22.9% of these underwent one or more re‐operations. The technique used was cryo‐ or photocoagulation (100%) + scleral buckling or an encircling band (96%) + drainage of sub‐retinal fluid (80%). The surgical complications were intraocular bleeding (13%), choroidal detachment (7%), and proliferative vitreo‐retinopathy (5%). All complications were significantly more frequent after re‐operations. Complete re‐attachment was achieved in 78.1%. The re‐attachment rate was significantly lower in aphakic cases (66.7%) than in phakic non‐traumatic cases (80.8%). The visual acuity in re‐attached cases was better than 0.5 in 33.7% and better than 0.1 in 72.2%.