title: [Risk factors for recurrent retinal detachment].
abstract: Surgical treatment of inaugural retinal detachment achieves anatomical success in approximately 85%-90% of cases after one operation and up to 94%-96% after two or more operations. Recurrent detachment may occur more or less frequently after a variable lapse of time. Early recurrences occur within 6 weeks following the first surgery and late recurrences more than 6 weeks later. Insufficient treatment and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) are the main causes of early recurrence. Late recurrences are mainly caused by vitreous base traction, but the literature has few reports on these cases. Prevention of recurrence requires careful surgery and reasonable use of cryo while waiting for a proven pharmacological treatment of PVR.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille. John.Conrath@ap-hm.fr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Conrath
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors