Aphakic retinal detachment.
The incidence of aphakia in our series of retinal detachment is 14.82%. The incidence of retinal detachment in aphakia is 2.74%. The use of alpha-chymotrypsin does not influence this incidence. In our own patients, we did not find a sex predominance, although there was a predominance of the male sex in the referred group. The mean age of the patients affected by aphakic retinal detachment was 65.87 years and 82.6% of the cases occurred above the age of 56 years. There was no statistical significant difference between the right and the left eye involvement. Finally, 38.37% of the detachments appeared during the first year after the cataract extraction, 24.4% were myopic and 14.66% bilateral.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors
D002918:Chymotrypsin