PMID- 23002414
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120925
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 1874-3641 (Electronic)
IS  - 1874-3641 (Linking)
VI  - 6
DP  - 2012
TI  - The incidence of retinal detachment after cataract surgery.
PG  - 79-82
AB  - PURPOSE: To estimate the cumulative risk of retinal detachment (RD) after routine 
      cataract surgery by phacoemulsification. SETTING: Department of Ophthalmology, 
      Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark METHODS: Retrospective cohort study based on 
      12.222 consecutive cataract surgeries in 7.856 patients using phacoemulsification 
      over a 6 year period from 2000 to 2005. Cases with a diagnosis of RD were 
      identified through the procedure-coding database at the Medical Registry of 
      Aarhus University Hospital, which is based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) and 
      used to report to the Danish Patients Registry (LPR). For each case the age of 
      the patient, gender, axial length, surgical complications, postoperative Nd:YAG 
      capsulotomy and time interval between cataract surgery and RD were recorded. 
      RESULTS: The mean follow-up time was 64.8 months (range 26.2-97.6 months). 
      Forty-eight (48) cases of RD were identified making an overall cumulative risk of 
      0.39%. As compared to the normal incidence of RD reported in the Scandinavian 
      literature, the relative risk of RD following cataract surgery was about 2.3 
      times that of the natural incidence. As compared to the average cataract group, 
      the group of RD following cataract surgery was characterized by a younger mean 
      age (60.5 vs. 73.7 years), male gender (58.3% vs 34.8%), longer axial lengths 
      (24.56 vs 23.25 mm) and a higher frequency of surgical complications (10.4% vs 
      1.8%) (p<0.001) but not a higher frequency of Nd:YAG capsulotomy (p>0.05), 
      CONCLUSIONS: The cumulative risk of RD after lens surgery was about 2.3 times the 
      natural incidence but seems to be lower than that of older reports. SYNOPSIS: 
      Retinal detachment following cataract surgery is associated with young age, male 
      gender, long axial lengths and surgical complications. The cumulative risk of RD 
      after lens surgery was about 2.3 times the natural.
FAU - Olsen, Thomas
AU  - Olsen T
AD  - Dept. of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
FAU - Jeppesen, Peter
AU  - Jeppesen P
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20120907
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Open Ophthalmol J
JT  - The open ophthalmology journal
JID - 101480505
PMC - PMC3447164
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Cataract surgery
OT  - biometry.
OT  - complications
OT  - outcome
OT  - retinal detachment
EDAT- 2012/09/25 06:00
MHDA- 2012/09/25 06:01
PMCR- 2012/01/01
CRDT- 2012/09/25 06:00
PHST- 2012/04/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/08/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/08/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/09/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/09/25 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - TOOPHTJ [pii]
AID - 10.2174/1874364101206010079 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Open Ophthalmol J. 2012;6:79-82. doi: 10.2174/1874364101206010079. Epub 2012 Sep 
      7.