Purpose: To compare the adverse events after the use of 2 conventional methods of magnetic intravitreal foreign body (IVFB) extraction and to identify the prognostic factors in a series of patients with retained IVFB. Design: Retrospective comparative interventional case series. Participants: Seventy-one eyes of 71 patients with IVFB undergoing foreign body extraction. Methods: A retrospective ...

PURPOSE To assess the reproducibility and accuracy of ultrasound (US) measurements in determining the distance between corneoscleral limbus and retinal break and its relation with the distance measured by indirect ophthalmoscopy, in patients undergoing a laser retinopexy procedure. METHODS Forty-four patients with a single retinal break, scheduled for laser a retinopexy procedure (26 phakic p...

Aims: To compare the success rates of vitrectomy and gas with vitrectomy, gas, and buckle in the treatment of inferior break retinal detachments. Methods: A retrospective case note review of 86 patients who presented with inferior break retinal detachments was carried out. An inferior break was defined as a horseshoe tear present between 4 and 8 o’clock. Patients were analysed in two groups; gr...

PURPOSE To design a new model of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) that would not rely on the addition of exogenous cells. The release of endogenous cells from surrounding attachments seems to be an early event in the pathogenesis of PVR. Because the proteolytic enzyme dispase dissociates tissues, the hypothesis was that an intraocular injection of dispase could trigger events that would ca...

AIMS To compare the success rates of vitrectomy and gas with vitrectomy, gas, and buckle in the treatment of inferior break retinal detachments. METHODS A retrospective case note review of 86 patients who presented with inferior break retinal detachments was carried out. An inferior break was defined as a horseshoe tear present between 4 and 8 o'clock. Patients were analysed in two groups; gr...

A consecutive series of 114 eyes (112 patients) undergoing pars plana vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment not complicated by severe proliferative vitreoretinopathy is presented (follow up 1 to 4 years; mean 19 months). The indications for vitrectomy fell into two main groups: (1) where the retinal view was poor and vitrectomy was required to clear media opacities to allow identific...

Before the turn of the twentieth century, eyes with retinal detachment (RD) were considered doomed. Contrary to other branches of ophthalmology, such as cataract extraction, the surgical treatment of retinal detachment was still in its infancy, and surgical success rates were less than five percent. From 1902 to 1921,Jules Gonin1 almost single handedly changed the landscape of retinal detachmen...

AIM To report the clinical presentation, surgical management, and outcome of retinal detachment following excimer laser. METHODS Retrospective analysis of retinal detachments observed in 11 eyes of 10 myopic patients who had previously undergone photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) or phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) by excimer laser. RESULTS Symptoms of visual loss in two eyes were initiall...

PURPOSE To assess the long-term anatomical and functional results of balloon buckle surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-five selected detachments with a single break or a group of breaks close together were treated with a temporary parabulbar balloon. Adhesion was obtained with transconjunctival cryopexy and argon laser photocoagulation. Retinal detachme...