ArticleEye (London, England)2013
United Kingdom National Ophthalmology Database Study of Vitreoretinal Surgery: report 1; case mix, complications, and cataract.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Outcomes of two-stage phacoemulsification and pars plana vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy with coexisting cataract: a comparative study.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
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- Establishing a method to estimate the effect of antimyopia management options on lifetime cost of myopia.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2023Review
- The effect of ethnicity on anatomic success following macular hole surgery: a multicentre cohort study.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023Article
- Variability of Visual Recovery with Time in Epiretinal Membrane Surgery: A Predictive Analysis Based on Retinal Layer OCT Thickness Changes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane Surgery in Patients Aged Over 80 Years: Efficacy and Safety.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
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- Vitreous hemorrhage - Causes, diagnosis, and management.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2023Review
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Abstract
aimTo report the vitreoretinal (VR) surgical case mix in the United Kingdom, the intraoperative complication rate of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV), and the incidence of post-vitrectomy cataract extraction.
methodsParticipating hospitals prospectively collected ophthalmic data using a single electronic medical record system, with automatic extraction of anonymised data to a national database. This study included the subset of 11618 VR operations undertaken on 9619 eyes, of 8741 patients, over 8 years, from 27 sites. Surgical data included the indication for surgery, all procedure elements, and whether or not an intraoperative complication occurred. Post-vitrectomy cataract data were also analysed. The main outcome measures were a description of the indications for surgery, intraoperative PPV complication rate, and percentage of eyes undergoing post-vitrectomy cataract surgery (PVCS).
resultsThe most common indications for VR intervention were retinal breaks and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (48.5%), macular hole (9.8%), epiretinal membrane (9.6%), and diabetic eye disease (7.3%). Overall, 7.8% of PPVs had at least one intraoperative complication-the most common were iatrogenic retinal breaks (3.2%), and lens touch (1.2-1.6% of phakic eyes). PVCS occurred in 50.2, 68.7, and 74.0% of eyes at 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively.
conclusionVR surgery is undertaken for a wide range of conditions, but a small number of diagnoses encompass the majority of cases. Intraoperative PPV complications are not uncommon, and post-vitrectomy cataract is to be expected in most phakic eyes.
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