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Twenty five-gauge sutureless vitrectomy versus 20-gauge vitrectomy in epiretinal membrane surgery
Khulood Mohammed Sayed1, Takeshi Naito, Mahmoud Mohamed Farouk
1Department of Ophthalmology, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.
Purpose:
To compare visual outcomes, intraoperative and postoperative complications of 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (25-G TSV) versus conventional 20-gauge vitrectomy in epiretinal membrane (ERM) surgery.
Methods:
A retrospective comparative study was conducted on 200 eyes with idiopathic ERM who underwent either primary 20-gauge vitrectomy (n=95) or 25-G TSV (n=105) with 6 months follow up. The following parameters were collected and compared: age, gender, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), intraocular pressure (IOP), postoperative anterior chamber inflammation, intraoperative and postoperative complications.
Results:
Twenty-five gauge group achieved a significantly better vision at the 1(st) postoperative month (p=0.008) and a significantly higher incidence of visual improvement 6 months postoperatively (p=0.04) than 20-gauge group. Intraocular pressure was significantly higher at the 1(st), 3(rd) and 6(th) postoperative months compared with baseline in the 20-G group. However, in the 25-gauge group IOP remained near to the baseline at the same period. Twenty five-gauge group achieved a significantly lower anterior chamber inflammation and a lower incidence of postoperative cystoid macular edema (CME) (p=0.01), hyphema (p=0.000) and after cataract (p=0.000) than 20-gauge group.
Conclusions:
The 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy achieves rapid and higher visual improvement, less postoperative inflammation and complications than the 20-gauge vitrectomy in ERM surgery.
