title: [Pseudophakic retinal detachment: how to manage?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Retinal detachment, a common complication of cataract surgery, requires urgent surgical treatment. The external approach combining retinopexy with scleral buckling remains the gold standard in the surgical management of pseudophakic retinal detachment (RD) without marked proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), although intraocular surgery is currently preferred by most of the authors. The purpose of this study is to compare the anatomical and functional results obtained with both techniques.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study compares the results of two techniques for treating pseudophakic retinal detachment: external surgery (group I), and vitrectomy with internal tamponade (group II). Ab-externo surgery was performed in 24 patients (24 eyes), while 22 patients (22 eyes) underwent primary vitrectomy. In order to make both groups comparable, we excluded recurrences of RD, vitreous hemorrhage and other media opacities, giant tears and initial grade C PVR. Minimum follow-up was 12 months. Postoperative variables analyzed and compared were the rate of initial and final anatomical success, final visual acuity, and causes of failure of the initial surgery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The retina was reattached with a single operation in 21 eyes in group I (87.5%) and 19 eyes in group II (86.4%) (P=0.91). The causes of anatomical failure in both groups were proliferative vitreoretinopathy (4 cases) and secondary tears or tears not seen on initial examination (2 cases). For patients in group I, secondary surgery consisted of total vitrectomy with encircling buckle. Patients in group II underwent an additional vitrectomy (peeling of vitreoretinal proliferation, and silicone oil tamponade as necessary). After a mean follow-up of 12 months, the final examination noted a reattached retina in 23 eyes in group I (95.84%) and 21 eyes in group II (95.45%) (P=0.95). The final visual results were identical at comparable follow-up periods. Indeed, the final visual acuity was similar in the two groups with nearly 40% of patients having recovered visual acuity between 1/10 and 5/10 (P=0.98).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With regard to surgical treatment of pseudophakic retinal detachment, vitrectomy with internal tamponade provides anatomical and functional results comparable to those obtained with external surgery.
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc. Electronic address: lbenhmidoune@gmail.com.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Benhmidoune
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Elkharroubi
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Bensemlali
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chakib
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elbelhadji
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rachid
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zaghloul
authors.affiliation: Service d'ophtalmologie adulte, hôpital 20-Août-1953, 4, rue Lahcen-El-Arjoune-ex-Dalton, 20360 Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amraoui
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D019591:Pseudophakia / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012086:Reoperation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013630:Tampons, Surgical; D014821:Vitrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods
keywords: Décollement de rétine; Indentation sclérale; Internal tamponade; Pseudophakic; Pseudophaque; Retinal detachment; Scleral buckle; Tamponnement interne; Vitrectomie; Vitrectomy