The occurrence of loculated bleb-like delayed subretinal fluid absorption has been reported following scleral buckling surgery and more commonly following pneumatic retinopexy among adults and seldom in children. The authors report the occurrence of delayed subretinal fluid absorption following scleral buckling surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in a 15-year-old girl, indicating the ...

Endoilluminator-assisted scleral buckling combines the advantages of scleral buckling for its external approach and pars plana vitrectomy for its better visual visualization in the management of retinal detachment (RD). It has recently been proven to be safe and efficacious in simple cases. This report discusses successful management of a complex case of RD in a patient with the single function...

purpose: to compare deep vitrectomy and scleral buckling for management of macula-off retinal detachment regarding the time course of foveal reattachment. methods: this non-randomized clinical trial included 25 patients with spontaneous rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. patients underwent deep vitrectomy (11 patients) or scleral buckling (14 eyes) based on the accepted indications. patients u...

BACKGROUND/AIM Our purpose was to investigate the anatomic success of scleral buckling surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 524 consecutive patients were retrospectively analysed. Several parameters including the lens status, number of breaks and extent of retinal detachment, preoperative proliferative vitreoretinopathy and refractive errors were exam...

Wide-angle viewing systems (WAVSs) were originally established for pars plana vitrectomy. However, their application to scleral buckling surgery was recently reported. In this study, we compared the outcomes of scleral buckling using a noncontact WAVS with that of scleral buckling using conventional indirect ophthalmoscopy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The clinical records of 39 eyes (...

BACKGROUND Scleral buckling is still a common procedure to repair rhematogenous retinal detachment, and acute or chronic infection of the scleral explant is rare. We report an intractable case of acute scleral explant infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. CASE A 36-year-old man suffered from acute scleral explant infection by P. aeruginosa forty-eight hours after scleral buckling for rhegmatog...

Purpose. To observe the long-term effectiveness of scleral buckling and transscleral cryopexy conducted under a surgical microscope in the treatment of uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Methods. This was a retrospective analysis in a total of 227 consecutive patients (244 eyes) with uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (proliferative vitreoretinopathy ≤ C2). All patien...

Purpose The non-contact wide-angle viewing system (WAVS) with chandelier endoillumination is being used more commonly during scleral buckling surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachments although its safety has not been established. We report our findings in a case of bacterial endophthalmitis that developed after scleral buckling surgery with WAVS and chandelier endoillumination. Observati...

THE past few years have seen the rapid development of scleral buckling procedures for the treatment of retinal separation (Cavka, 1959; Schepens, Okamura, and Brockhurst, 1957; Schepens, Okamura, Brockhurst, and Regan, 1960; Fison, McAuley, Meyer-Schwickerath, and Trevor-Roper, 1960). About 6 years ago I first used the lamellar scleral flap to cover the area of resection. The flap covered the k...