INTRODUCTION Retinal detachment remains one of the most serious complications of cataract surgery. Treatment of this condition has represented a challenge for vitreoretinal surgeons.Scleral buckle (SB) surgery is one of the treatment options in pseudophakic and aphakic retinal detachment (RD). AIMS To find out the anatomical and visual outcome of SB in pseudophakic and aphakic RD. SUBJECTS ...

In a prospective study 84 patients with aphakic retinal detachment were treated either by local scleral buckling alone or combined with an encirclement. The rate of surgical reattachment of the retina was found to be similar with either technique over a minimum follow-up period of one year. Simplicity and a low incidence of serious complications of the local procedure merit its application as t...

126 cases of retinal breaks treated in our department by photocoagulation during a period of 10 years (1963-1973) were selected for a close annual follow-up. Eliminated from the study were cases of macular holes, breaks which developed in an eye after retinal detachment surgery, and cases in which a close follow-up was impossible for various reasons. The study includes symptomatic retinal break...

Norton (i 964) showed that retinal detachment in aphakia has a more favourable prognosis than previous workers had suggested (Schepens, 1951; Hughes, 1952; Colyear and Pischel, 1956). A small group of cases remains in which the outcome of retinal surgery is prejudiced by dense lens remnants. The major factors contributing to failure in such cases are inadequate fundus view and vitreous retracti...

The use ofintravitreal air, first mentioned by Arruga (I 936), is not popular in the treatment ofaphakic retinal detachments for two basic reasons: (I) The air may move the iris diaphragm forwards-causing an angle-block glaucoma. (2) The air itselfmay escape into the anterior chamber and remain there. The injection of air in cases of phakic retinal detachment is well known (Rosengren, I938), bu...

the purpose of this study was to compare the anatomic and visual outcome of primary vitrectomy with scleral buckling in patients with retinal detachment following cataract surgery. fifty-six consecutive patients with retinal detachment after cataract surgery were randomly assigned to two treatment groups: standard scleral buckling and standard three-port deep vitrectomy. successful treatment wa...

Silicone oil alone or as an adjunct to vitrectomy is widely used for the treatment of retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). It appears to reduce the tendency for recurrent traction detachment, but the mechanism of this action is obscure. We have studied the effects of silicone oil in an experimental animal model. Twenty five thousand homologous fibroblasts wer...

purpose: to evaluate the underlying causes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (rrd) in eyes operated for this reasion. methods: out of 1473 patients who underwent retinal detachment surgery, records of 369 patients were randomly selected and evaluated for the types of retinal breaks, the underlying disorders, and location of breaks. results: fifty-two percents of patients were less than 50 ye...