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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CLINICAL FACTORS THAT PREDISPOSE PATIENTS TO PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY IN APHAKIA

Hiroshi Nagasaki, Hidenao Ideta, Akinori Uemura, Hiroyuki Morita, KYUTARO ITO, Junichi Yonemoto

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Abstract

To clarify the risk factors of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) in aphakia, the clinical features of 25 aphakic eyes with PVR were statistically analyzed and compared with a control group of 157 aphakic eyes with non-PVR rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The statistically significant (P less than 0.05) factors that predisposed patients to PVR in aphakia were as follows: a history of vitreous loss on cataract surgery, retinal detachment developing within 3 months after cataract extraction, duration of retinal detachment longer than 3 months, break larger than three disc diameters, and choroidal detachment. Vitreous loss is believed to play the most important role in the development of PVR in aphakia.

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To clarify the risk factors of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) in aphakia, the clinical features of 25 aphakic eyes with PVR were statistically analyzed and compared with a control group of 157 aphakic eyes with non-PVR rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The statistically significant (P less than 0.05) factors that predisposed patients to PVR in aphakia were as follows: a history of vitreous loss on cataract surgery, retinal detachment developing within 3 months after cataract extraction, duration of retinal detachment longer than 3 months, break larger than three disc diameters, and choroidal detachment. Vitreous loss is believed to play the most important role in the development of PVR in aphakia.

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To clarify the risk factors of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) in aphakia, the clinical features of 25 aphakic eyes with PVR were statistically analyzed and compared with a control group of 157 aphakic eyes with non-PVR rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The statistically significant (P less than 0.05) factors that predisposed patients to PVR in aphakia were as follows: a history of vitreous loss on cataract surgery, retinal detachment developing within 3 months after cataract extraction, duration of retinal detachment longer than 3 months, break larger than three disc diameters, and choroidal detachment. Vitreous loss is believed to play the most important role in the development of PVR in aphakia.

Key concepts: Aphakia, Proliferative vitreoretinopathy, Retinal detachment, Medicine, Ophthalmology, Retinal, Intraocular lens

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