Conventional buckling surgery or primary vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with multiple breaks

Abstract

Both surgical procedures can achieve favorable and comparable anatomic outcomes in the majority of patients in the treatment of RD with multiple breaks. Intra-and postoperative complications are different in the two procedures.

Results of Scleral Buckling Surgery in Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment

“…The most common complication observed in our study was a temporary increase in IOP, seen in 4 (4%) patients. This rate has been reported as between 3.3% and 16% in various publications (4,14,15). Another complication seen in our research was the development of subretinal hemorrhage in 2 patients.…”

Scleral buckling versus primary vitrectomy in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment study (SPR Study): recruitment list evaluation. Study report no. 2

“…Numerous studies have been published recommending one of the two methods [1,4,13,14,20,24,26,27,29,30,32]. We could identify no consensus among several editorial comments on this issue [6, 15-18, 33, 34].…”

Scleral buckling combined with vitrectomy for the management of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment associated with inferior retinal breaks

“…They also comment that inferior detachments tend to be present for longer before patients seek clinical advice, and that preoperative intravitreal fibrocellular proliferations may therefore be more common than in superior detachments, but this is unproven. 15 All of our patients underwent a two-port vitrectomy with indirect ophthalmoscopy. This has a number of advantages over microscope-based wide angle viewing systems.…”