title: Survival rate after vitreous surgery in patients with diabetic retinopathy.
abstract: We studied factors affecting the survival rate after vitreous surgery in 73 patients with diabetic retinopathy, who had undergone vitreous surgery between 1982 and 1987, according to the life-table theory and multivariate analysis. The 5-year survival rate was 84.8%; the mean age at death was 62.1 +/- 7.1 (mean +/- SD) years; the mean postoperative survival time was 34.0 +/- 25.2 months; the most common cause of death having been cardiovascular disease, which occurred in 5 of the 13 (38.5%) patients who had died. Patients with triopathy essentially require very careful systemic management, because this state was definitively associated with a decline in postoperative survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uchio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inamura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saeki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000601:surgery*