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  • Title: Pneumatic retinopexy versus scleral buckle. Preferences of Vitreous Society members, 1990.
    Author: Snyder WB, Bloome MA, Birch DG.
    Journal: Retina; 1992; 12(1):43-5. PubMed ID: 1565870.
    Abstract:
    A survey was conducted among the 1990 members of the Vitreous Society in order to measure their acceptance of pneumatic retinopexy. They were asked which treatment they would prefer should they suffer a hypothetical detachment. The choices were limited to pneumatic retinopexy or scleral buckling (encircling or segmental). The majority of respondents selected a scleral buckling procedure for a phakic retinal detachment with two adjacent superior temporal quadrant tears. Surgeons who had been in practice for 10 years or less (median for entire group = 10 years) were significantly more likely to select a pneumatic retinopexy procedure. As the details of the hypothetical detachment became more complicated with myopia, additional tears, vitreous hemorrhage, or lattice degeneration with a positive family history, the respondents selected a scleral buckling procedure with greater frequency, and the differences between the choices of the surgeons became nonsignificant. This survey shows that many surgeons feel pneumatic retinopexy is an acceptable alternative to buckling surgery in select cases. There were no trends by geographic location.
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