Incidence of retinal detachment after macular surgery, a retrospective study
International Journal of Development Research
Incidence of retinal detachment after macular surgery, a retrospective study
Received 17th October, 2018; Received in revised form 20th November, 2018; Accepted 24th December, 2018; Published online 30th January, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Dr. Abdulkareem Hamdoon Ahmed et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A retrospective non randomised study of 634 macular surgery procedures was undertaken in two academic centres. Idiopathic macular hole (IMH) surgery (n = 272) and epiretinal membrane (ERM) surgery (n = 362) were performed between 2008 and 2011. We noted the anatomical and functional results of these procedures and we studied serious complications excluding cataract. Minimum follow up was 1 year. No retinal detachment (RD) occurred in patients presenting with an intraoperative or preoperative successfully treated retinal break (RB). The rate of RD occurring after IMH surgery was higher than after the ERM surgical procedure (6.6% vs 2.5%, p = 0.02). The rate of RD was higher in patients presenting with stage 2 and 3 IMH than with stage 4 IMH. However, lens status as well as preoperatively treated RD did not influence the rate of RD after macular surgery.
