Comment on: Cost-Effectiveness of Limited Vitrectomy for Vision-Degrading Myodesopsia

Prior to the vitrectomy, the 67 patients in this study had excellent visual acuity with average vision between 20/20 and 20/40. [...]any subsequent complication would reduce this already normal vision. Cataract formation increases substantially with time, with long-term studies indicating cataract s...

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Published inAmerican journal of ophthalmology Vol. 213; pp. 322 - 323
Main Authors Weaver, Travers, Ross, William H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.05.2020
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Cataracts
Eye surgery
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Retinal detachment
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Summary:Prior to the vitrectomy, the 67 patients in this study had excellent visual acuity with average vision between 20/20 and 20/40. [...]any subsequent complication would reduce this already normal vision. Cataract formation increases substantially with time, with long-term studies indicating cataract surgery rates of the order of 53% to 76%.2 Since 70% of patients (ie, 47 out of 67) were myopic, cataract extraction in these myopic patients would result in anisometropia with the need for the wearing of a contact lens or clear lens extraction in the fellow eye. [...]cataract surgery in myopic subjects has an incidence of subsequent retinal detachment of 2% to 8%.3 Seventeen percent of patients in this study did not have PVD.
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ISSN:0002-9394
1879-1891
DOI:10.1016/j.ajo.2019.10.039