NEW ORLEANS — Increased vimentin at the time of retinal detachment repair may help predict later development of proliferative vitreoretinopathy, according to a poster presentation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
“Our study is the first to look into vitreous biomarker values at baseline retinal detachment surgery and prior to PVR formation,” Abtin Shahlaee, MD, said in the presentation. “In the present study, we demonstrated increased baseline vimentin in the human vitreous body of patients subsequently developing PVR.”
In a retrospective chart