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  • Title: The prognostic influence of chronicity of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on anatomic success after reattachment surgery.
    Author: James M, O'Doherty M, Beatty S.
    Journal: Am J Ophthalmol; 2007 Jun; 143(6):1032-4. PubMed ID: 17524770.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: To investigate anatomic success after surgery for chronic retinal detachment. DESIGN: Retrospective, case series review. METHODS: The surgical outcomes of reattachment surgery for 36 eyes of 35 patients with chronic retinal detachments are reported and are compared with the outcomes for 129 fresh retinal detachments. RESULTS: After exclusion of retinal detachments secondary to retinal dialysis and of cases with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), success after a single procedure was seen in eight of 14 (57.1%) chronic retinal detachments, and this compares with 92 of 107 (86.0%) fresh retinal detachments (P = .0161). CONCLUSIONS: Chronicity of retinal detachment at presentation is an important and poor prognostic indicator for reattachment surgery.
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