Scleral buckling in 2 1/2 to 11-month-old premature infants with retinal detachment associated with acute retrolental fibroplasia.
The authors report their experience over the past 5 years in the cryosurgical management of retinal detachment in 10 eyes of 8 premature infants with retrolental fibroplasia, whose ages at the time of detachment surgery ranged from 2 1/2 months to 11 months, with an average of 5 1/2 months. Postoperative follow-up, ranging from 8 to 61 months, has revealed that scleral buckling was successful in 6 eyes (60%). The authors have found that ERG responses are slow to become established postoperatively, and have concluded that VER testing is of questionable value in these cases.
D000367:Age Factors; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000150:complications*; D012591:Scleral Buckling