title: [Clinical risk factors for postoperative proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). A prospective study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify clinical risk factors for development of postoperative PVR, to determine the incidence of this complication and its time of onset by a prospective multicentric study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A multicentric and prospective study of 223 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) was conducted. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify risk factors for PVR among 83 variables related to preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative characteristics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  22 out of 223 RD developed PVR (incidence 9.9%, confidence interval 95%: 5.9-13.9). After logistic regression analysis, four variables showed an odds ratio higher than 1.0 (RD affecting 4 quadrants, cryopexy, aphakia/pseudophakia and those RD in which an encircling band was implanted). None of these factors showed a <<p>> value lower than 0.05. Most of postoperative PVR (77.2%) appeared in the first month after surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study establishes the incidence of PVR, and its time of onset, but it was not effective to identify clinical risk factors with a high level of confidence.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada, Grupo de Retina, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain. quique@ioba.med.uva.es
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez de la Rúa
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aragón
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Sanabria
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giraldo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mayo
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Pastor
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García Arumí
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery*; D012307:Risk Factors; D018630:Vitreoretinopathy, Proliferative / Q000453:epidemiology*