Prognostic factors and complications of vitreous surgery.
Vitrectomy has provided a means for the restoration or amelioration of drastically reduced visual acuity in selected patients. Many patients have, as a consequence of the deleterious natural history of their disease, suffered permanent impairment of vision, but in some cases even a relative therapeutic success is very gratifying. Nonetheless, in its present state, vitreous surgery is not without a significant incidence of complications which are enumerated in this paper.
D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000601:surgery*