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Complications 111<br />

Third Category of Difficult <strong>Detachment</strong>s<br />

These are represented by pseudophakic detachments; the problem<br />

lies in the opacities of the optic media after an anterior segment<br />

surgery, which precludes finding the break and the application of<br />

minimal external buckling. However, the limits of external minimal<br />

buckling in this third category are in a gray zone.<br />

Actually,the indication for a vitrectomy in these eyes, combined<br />

with a preceding anterior segment surgery, does not depend only<br />

on the size of the tear or the presence of vitreoretinal proliferation,<br />

but also on the expertise of the surgeon in diagnostics in the presence<br />

of optical interferences. Biomicroscopy with the use of the new<br />

indirect wide-field contact lenses combined with simultaneous<br />

depression of the retinal periphery and application of the 4 Rules<br />

for finding the primary break [19, 20] might enable a limited<br />

prospective buckling and reduce the need for an invasive surgery.<br />

Complications<br />

There are no intraocular complications after minimal segmental<br />

buckling without drainage, except for a rare choroidal in a highly<br />

myopic eye (about 0.3%). The remaining complications are extraocular<br />

and reversible: in less than 0.5%,a buckle infection or extrusion<br />

may occur, and, in about 1%, diplopia may occur. However,<br />

diplopia after segmental buckles can be reduced to a minimum by<br />

avoiding trauma to the perimysium of the muscles during surgery,<br />

i.e., by avoiding grasping muscles with sharp instruments or uncontrolled<br />

pulling on the traction sutures. In addition, starting on<br />

the first day postoperatively, the patient should practice binocular<br />

motility exercises in all directions several times a day; this should<br />

be done independent of the state of the retina. This will avert the<br />

development of muscular adherences to the sclera or neighboring<br />

tissues and postoperative diplopia.

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