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Clear Corneal Cataract Wound Dehiscence During Pneumatic Retinopexy
Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:847-848.
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Pneumatic retinopexy is generally accepted as a safe and effective treatment for certain types of retinal detachment. This procedure recently has been demonstrated to produce equivalent final visual outcomes and reattachment rates compared with scleral buckling for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.1 The growing popularity of this technique was verified in a recent survey of members of the Retina and Vitreous Societies that revealed that pneumatic retinopexy is the treatment of choice for "uncomplicated" retinal detachments.2 Factors influencing the selection of this modality by vitreoretinal specialists included number of years since completion of clinical training and complexity of the detachment.2
Complications of pneumatic retinopexy have been well described and involve the anterior and posterior segments.3-4 These include: cataract, choroidal detachment, delayed resorption or shifting of subretinal fluid, endophthalmitis, pars plana/subconjunctival/subretinal gas, malignant glaucoma, peripheral subretinal hemorrhage, vitreous hemorrhage, iris incarceration, macular hole/pucker, neck pain, subretinal/vitreous pigment, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, refractive changes, untreated . . . [Full Text of this Article] Report of Cases
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Albert S. Jun, MD, PhD;
Dante J. Pieramici, MD
Baltimore, Md
William Z. Bridges, Jr, MD
Asheville, NC
Corresponding author: Dante J. Pieramici, MD, Maumenee 215, Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287-9277 (e-mail: dpieramici@jhmi.edu.).
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