NEW YORK — When managing patients with retinal detachment, the difference in efficacy between scleral buckling and pars plana vitrectomy is often caused by surgeon performance, according to a speaker.
In a presentation at OSN New York Retina, Thanos Papakostas, MD, of The Retina Institute, shared the results of the PRO study, which evaluated scleral buckling, pars plana vitrectomy, and a combined vit/buckle procedure or adjuvant scleral buckling in 2,335 eyes with noncomplicated retinal detachment. The success rate of scleral buckling was higher in phakic eyes, and the vit/buckle procedure was