Prognostic factors and complications of vitreous surgery

Vitrectomy has provided a means for the restoration or amelioration of drastically reduced visual acuity in selected patients. Many patients have, as a consequence of the deleterious natural history of their disease, suffered permanent impairment of vision, but in some cases even a relative therapeutic success is very gratifying. Nonetheless, in its present state, vitreous surgery is not without a significant incidence of complications which are enumerated in this paper.