[Severe intra- and postoperative supra-choroid hemorrhage. Risk factors, therapy, results].
BACKGROUND
The aim of this study was to analyze risk factors, therapeutic strategies, and functional and anatomic results of eyes with severe suprachoroidal hemorrhage.


METHODS
Eight of 11 bleeding episodes occurred intraoperatively and 3/11 postoperatively. Bleeding was associated with the following surgical procedures: perforating keratoplasty (5x), extracapsular cataract extraction (3x), pars plana vitrectomy (2x), intracapsular cataract extraction (1x).


RESULTS
Nine operations were performed with general anesthesia, two after retrobulbar injection. Ocular risk factors (e.g., prior operations, ocular diseases) and general risk factors (e.g., cardiovascular diseases, diabetes) were analyzed. At the end of the follow-up time visual acuity had improved in three eyes, and it was unchanged in one eye and worse in seven eyes. Four eyes were amaurotic; two of them had to be enucleated.


CONCLUSIONS
In spite of using state-of-the-art surgical techniques the prognosis of suprachoroidal bleeding remains serious. Patients who have a combination of several ocular and general risk factors almost exclusively are the ones who afflicted by this complication.
Häring
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Klinik für Ophthalmologie, Universität Kiel.
Behrendt
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S
Wiechens
B
B
Duncker
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G
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002832:Choroid Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012307:Risk Factors; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D014821:Vitrectomy