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- Title
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy -- At what risk is the fellow eye?
- Authors
Richter-Mueksch, Sibylla; Kiss, Christopher G.; Radner, Wolfgang; Binder, Susanne; Velikay-Parel, Michaela
- Abstract
Purpose: To find out if patients with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) due to complicated retinal detachment are at risk to acquire the same disease or other vision-threatening retinal abnormalities in the fellow eye. To furthermore assess in what time-period they appear and if subgroups of patients have special risks. Methods: 100 consecutive PVR-patients were studied retrospectively. 21 patients with PVR graded lower than C3, traumatic PVR, diabetic retinopathy or congenital vitreoretinal diseases were excluded. Age, gender, best-corrected visual acuity at the first and last visit, refraction, ocular disease in both eyes and observationtime were recorded. Results: After a mean follow-up of 8.5 years, 42 of 79 patients (53.4%) showed vision-threatening abnormalities in their fellow eyes: among them, 9 patients (11.4%) had PVR,13 (16%) simple retinal detachments and 14 (17.3%) retinal breaks. Abnormalities in the fellow eye did not develop after a certain time following surgery of the primary eye; 71.4% appeared within 5 years. Aphakic and pseudophakic patients had retinal breaks significantly more often (p = 0.011) than phakic patients. Myopia did not increase the risk for any abnormality. Men developed retinal detachment (p = 0.037) and PVR (p = 0.025) significantly more often than women. Conclusion: Patients with PVR have a greater than 50% risk of developing vision-threatening retinal abnormalities in their fellow eye. Because of this increased risk, these patients need regularly-scheduled long-term follow-up. Summary statement: Patients with PVR have a greater than 50% risk of developing vision-threatening retinal abnormalities in their fellow eye and a 37% risk to develop PVR from rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. More than two thirds of abnormalities in the fellow eye developed within five years of surgery of the primary eye.
- Subjects
PROLIFERATIVE vitreoretinopathy; VITREOUS body diseases; DISEASE risk factors; RETINAL detachment; VISUAL acuity; VISION
- Publication
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 2004, Vol 116, Issue 1/2, p32
- ISSN
0043-5325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF03040421