Pars plana vitrectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed for the treatment of various vitreo-retinal diseases such as retinal detachment, vitreous haemorrhage, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membrane and macular hole. Traditionally, most vitrectomy surgical systems utilise the 20-gauge instruments pars plana vitrectomy includes multiple incisions including p...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether there was a different response to vitrectomy and tap/biopsy with or without systemic antibiotic treatment in the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study and whether the signs and symptoms of endophthalmitis differ between diabetic and nondiabetic patients. DESIGN A multicenter clinical trial in which patients with acute post-cataract extraction endophthalmitis were ra...

come clinically visible, resulting in the blue appearance of the sclera. We report the treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in 4 eyes of 3 patients with OI. Scleral buckling surgery, pneumatic retinopexy, and primary vitrectomy are the standards for repair of uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. In patients with OI, however, the thin sclera provides an increased risk of s...

AIM To report our initial experience with lens-sparing vitrectomy for stage 4 retinopathy of prematurity using the 27-gauge (G) system. METHODS This retrospective case series involved nine eyes of five babies with active stage 4 ROP, who underwent 27-G lens-sparing vitrectomy. Surgery was done using 27-G valved cannulas and sclerotomies were made 1.5 mm from the limbus. Bilateral sequential v...

PURPOSE To investigate outcomes of vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) using air exclusively as the gas tamponade. METHODS This retrospective, interventional, consecutive case series involved reviewing medical records of patients that underwent vitrectomy and gas tamponade for RRD between January 2013 and December 2015. Patients whose eyes were treated exclusively with air ...

The article presents a literature review regarding the use of silicone oil tamponade (ST) in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) treatment. Vitrectomy, which produces stable anatomical result most patients, is currently recognized as one main methods treating RRD. In complicated detachments, vitrectomy followed by ST vitreous cavity (VC). Despite many benefits ST, it carries risk number com...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether or not an additional encircling band improves outcome in vitrectomy for pseudophakic retinal detachment (PRD). Also unclear is whether small gauge transconjunctival trocar-guided vitrectomy is as successful as conventional 20 gauge (G) vitrectomy. METHODS 257 adult patients with uncomplicated PRD were enrolled in 14 vitreoretinal centres across Germany. Contin...

PURPOSE To compare the surgical results of vitrectomy with and without scleral buckling for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD). METHODS Fifty-one patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) at different stages were submitted to pars plana vitrectomy as the primary surgery, 23 patients (45.09%) with scleral buckle (group I) and 28 (54.90%) wit...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term outcome and safety of vitrectomy for the treatment of an idiopathic macular hole using indocyanine green (ICG) to peel the internal limiting membrane(ILM). SUBJECTS AND METHODS By means of a retrospective study, we evaluated the outcomes of 56 eyes in 56 patients with an idiopathic macular hole who all underwent a primary vitrectomy with successful closure of...