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VISUAL AND ANATOMIC OUTCOMES OF PEDIATRIC ENDOSCOPIC VITRECTOMY IN 326 CASES
Aaron Nagiel1,2, Unikora Yang3, Mark W Reid1
1Department of Surgery, The Vision Center, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Purpose:
To report on the indications, outcomes, and complications of endoscopic vitrectomy in a large cohort of pediatric vitreoretinal patients.
Methods:
This is a retrospective interventional case series consisting of 244 eyes of 211 patients aged 18 years or younger undergoing a total of 326 endoscopic vitrectomies from 2008 to 2017. A 23-gauge vitrectomy was performed with use of a 19-gauge endoscope.
Results:
Two hundred and eleven patients with a mean age of 7.5 years (range: 0-18 years) and median follow-up since last surgery of 28 months (range: 3 months-8.7 years) were included. The most common indication for endoscopic vitrectomy was retinal detachment (234/326; 72%) with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (162/234; 69%). Other diagnoses included trauma (25%), retinopathy of prematurity (15%), and glaucoma (9%). Twenty-five percent of surgeries (80/326) were performed on eyes with significant corneal opacities. Retinal reattachment was achieved in 67% of eyes with retinal detachment (119/178). Visual acuity improved in 26% of retinal detachment eyes versus 53% of nonretinal detachment eyes (P = 0.005). Surgical complications included band keratopathy (15%), hypotony (8%), cataract (7%), and elevated intraocular pressure (3%).
Conclusion:
In this large series of pediatric endoscopic vitreoretinal surgeries, anatomic outcomes and complication rates were comparable with previous studies.
