Primary Retinal Detachment
Primary Retinal Detachment
Primary Retinal Detachment
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Surgical Technique 87<br />
vitrectomy and scleral buckling. Giant tears with an inverted posterior<br />
retinal flap are best repositioned with perfluorocarbon<br />
liquids after core vitrectomy. Giant tears that do not have a rolled<br />
posterior flap might be managed with scleral buckling alone.While<br />
PVR usually develops as a complication of prior retinal surgery,<br />
it is occasionally seen primarily. Such situations might result<br />
from a delay in diagnosis, or in eyes with vitreous hemorrhage or<br />
choroidal detachment. Vitrectomy is necessary if the epiretinal<br />
traction prevents the retinal breaks from flattening on the scleral<br />
buckle.<br />
Surgical Technique<br />
Advances in surgical instrumentation and technique have made<br />
vitrectomy a safer and more effective procedure in an eye with a<br />
detached, mobile, elevated retina. Critical components of the surgical<br />
instrumentation should include a high-speed vitreous cutter<br />
(2,500 cuts/min), a panoramic viewing system, and perfluorocarbon<br />
liquids. High-speed vitreous cutters allow shaving of the<br />
vitreous near mobile retina. The vitreous traction can be relieved<br />
around the tear, and it is possible to shave vitreous around areas of<br />
lattice degeneration, even with a mobile retinal detachment. The<br />
intraoperative use of perfluorocarbon liquids flattens the retinal<br />
detachment and reduces the potential for iatrogenic retinal breaks,<br />
as the vitreous instruments pass in and out of the sclerotomy sites.<br />
Also, the perfluorocarbon liquids reduce the mobility of the retina,<br />
as the cortical vitreous is shaved near the vitreous base (Figs. 5.1,<br />
5.2). Panoramic viewing allows better visualization of the periphery<br />
and helps to localize the retinal tears or breaks. This is<br />
particularly useful in pseudophakic eyes with a small optical aperture,<br />
or in eyes with microcornea.<br />
The surgical algorithm starts with a decision about the necessity<br />
for a concomitant scleral buckle. In aphakic or pseudophakic<br />
eyes, where the retinal breaks are small and located in the vitreous