More than 96% of patients who underwent endoscopy-assisted pars plana vitrectomy for silicone oil removal after proliferative vitreoretinopathy-related retinal detachment repair experienced a successful retinal reattachment, according to the results of a retrospective study.
The rate of retinal detachment after silicone oil removal is relatively high, so by using endoscopy the researchers were able to visualize findings not possible with a traditional pars plana vitrectomy system, study co-author Natalia Vila, MD, PhD, FEBO, said.
“Endoscopy-assisted vitrectomy enables physicians to have
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