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Ophthalmology

Volume 92, Issue 8, August 1985, Pages 1029-1034
Ophthalmology

The Use of Silicone Oil Following Failed Vitrectomy for Retinal Detachment with Advanced Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy

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Abstract

We have used silicone oil injection in a consecutive series of 44 patients with retinal detachment and advanced proliferative vitreoretinopathy, all of whom had previously failed to reattach with vitrectomy, membrane peeling, and scleral buckling. After a minimal follow-up period of six months, complete anatomic retinal reattachment posterior to the encircling scleral buckle was obtained in 64% of these eyes, and visual acuity of 5/200 or better was achieved in 57% of the anatomically successful cases. Silicone oil removal was performed in 69% of the anatomically and visually successful eyes without recurrent retinal detachment.

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    • Presented at the Eighty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, Georgia, November 11–15, 1984.

    Supported by National Eye Institute Grant EY02903 and the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

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