Silastic rod encirclement in retinal detachment surgery.

Silastic rod encirclement in retinal detachment surgery.

OUTPATIENT RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

Retinal detachment surgery has been considered an inpatient hospital procedure requiring preoperative and postoperative hospitalization. In this pilot study, outpatient retinal detachment surgery was performed on sixteen patients and the results (100% success rate after an average follow-up of 8.3 months) were comparable or better than reported overall success rates for retinal detachment ...

Retinal detachment treated with encircling silastic sponge. Further experience.

This technique, which has already been described in detail (Chawla, 1970), was used on two aphakic eyes which had already undergone unsuccessful surgery for retinal detachment and had shown early signs of preretinal retraction. Briefly, a 7 mm. silastic sponge is halved lengthwise to produce a broad shallow implant. Monitored cryopexy is applied to the retinal tears and any suspect areas. Subre...

Retinal detachment surgery. Encircling silastic 3-mm. band without evacuation of subretinal fluid.

In retinal detachment surgery, Chawla (I97I) had excellent results using a 7-mm. encircling silastic band, cauterization of the edges of the tear by cryocautery, and evacuation of the subretinal fluid (Schepens, Okamura, and Brockhurst, I957). He felt that the technique was simpler than scleral dissection and safer than the supramid encircling suture. The present study has the following aims: (...

Failure in retinal detachment surgery.

Many modern series showing the results of the treatment of retinal detachment report high success rates (Custodis, I965; Davis, I965; Jesberg, I965; Hagler, I965; Schepens, i965; Kreiger, Hodgkinson, Frederick, and Smith, 1971). The object of this report is to focus attention on anatomical failure in retinal detachment surgery in an attempt to highlight the important preoperative, operative, an...