title: The incidence of retinal detachment after penetrating keratoplasty.
abstract: Of 610 penetrating keratoplasties reviewed, retinal detachments did not occur after any phakic graft, or after aphakic or combined (keratoplasty and cataract extraction) procedures unless these were associated with vitreous manipulation. A 5.4% incidence of retinal detachment occurred after keratoplasty that involved vitrectomy. The resultant detachments had a poor prognosis probably because of delayd diagnosis and difficulties in visualization. Vitreous manipulation, therefore, may be essential to graft clarity but it is hazardous.
mesh_terms: D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003315:Cornea / Q000601:surgery; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011379:Prognosis; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000379:methods; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000601:surgery