Doft BH, Machemer R, Skinner M, Buettner H, Clarkson J, Crock J, McLeod D, Michels R, Scott J, Wilson D. Pars plana vitrectomy for vitreous amyloidosis.
Ophthalmology 1987;
94:607-11. [PMID:
3627709 DOI:
10.1016/s0161-6420(87)33402-5]
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Abstract
Thirty-six pars plana vitrectomies were performed on 30 eyes of 17 patients with biopsy-proven vitreous amyloidosis. Reopacification of the retrolental vitreous was the most common reason for vitrectomy revision, required in 24% of patients. Complications of amyloid or vitrectomy included retinal detachment requiring scleral buckling in 17% of eyes and glaucoma requiring filtering surgery in 17% of eyes. After a mean 35-month post-vitrectomy follow-up, 48% of eyes had visual acuities of 20/40 or better, and 32% of eyes had visual acuities between 20/50 and 20/100. Twenty percent of eyes had visual acuities of 20/200 or worse due either to persistent retinal detachment, open angle glaucoma, or residual opacification of the vitreous.
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