THE RESULTS OF VITREOUS SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENT, COMPLICATED BY SEVERE STAGES OF POSTERIOR FORM OF PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY

There were analyzed 198 patients (203 eyes) with severe stages of posterior form of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. In all cases pneumohydraulic melting of the retina and long vitreous tamponade of 20 % concentration of perfluoropropane (С3F8) were used. On 72 eyes (35.5 %) there were inferior retinal breaks. In 3 months of the follow up the retina was attached in 90.1 % cases (183 eyes), total retinal reattachment was in 59.6 % (121 eyes), reattachment of the central zone in 30.5 % (62 eyes). Visual acuity significantly increased χ2McNemar= 82.17; р=0.0000. The described method of vitreous surgery is effective and can be used for treatment of the patients with such a pathology.