Pseudophakic retinal detachments.
Primary scleral buckling procedures were performed for rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in a consecutive series of 179 pseudophakic eyes. Most cases involved eyes in which extracapsular surgery had been combined with iridocapsular implants or posterior chamber lenses or in which iris-fixation IOLs were placed following intracapsular surgery. The characteristics of the detachments were similar, regardless of the type of cataract surgery employed, although there was a trend toward an increased incidence of significant preoperative proliferative vitreoretinopathy in the intracapsular cases. Anatomic success rates were greater than 90% in all groups. There was a trend for lower visual acuities following successful surgery in the eyes in which intracapsular surgery had been performed than in those following extracapsular procedures.
D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000601:surgery; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014821:Vitrectomy