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- Title
Survival Rate after Vitreous Surgery in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy.
- Authors
Uchio, Eiichi; Inamura, Mikio; Ohno, Shigeaki; Taguchi, Haruhisa; Saeki, Kohzo
- Abstract
We studied factors affecting the survival rate after vitreous surgery in 73 patients with diabetic retinopathy, who had undergone vitreous surgery between 1982 and 1987, according to the life-table theory and multivariate analysis. The 5-year survival rate was 84.8%; the mean age at death was 62.1 ± 7.1 (mean ± SD) years; the mean postoperative survival time was 34.0 ± 25.2 months; the most common cause of death having been cardiovascular disease, which occurred in 5 of the 13 (38.5%) patients who had died. Patients with triopathy essentially require very careful systemic management, because this state was definitively associated with a decline in postoperative survival. Copyright © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Ophthalmologica, 1993, Vol 206, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0030-3755
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000310368