title: The prognostic influence of chronicity of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on anatomic success after reattachment surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate anatomic success after surgery for chronic retinal detachment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective, case series review.
  
  
  METHODS
  The surgical outcomes of reattachment surgery for 36 eyes of 35 patients with chronic retinal detachments are reported and are compared with the outcomes for 129 fresh retinal detachments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After exclusion of retinal detachments secondary to retinal dialysis and of cases with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), success after a single procedure was seen in eight of 14 (57.1%) chronic retinal detachments, and this compares with 92 of 107 (86.0%) fresh retinal detachments (P = .0161).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chronicity of retinal detachment at presentation is an important and poor prognostic indicator for reattachment surgery.
authors.affiliation: Waterford Regional Hospital, Waterford, Ireland. drmjames@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: Maeve
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Doherty
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beatty
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003452:Cryosurgery; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012160:Retina / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D014821:Vitrectomy