Long-term outcomes of vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Vivian SchreurJody BrouwersRamon A C Van HuetSandra SmeetsMilan PhanCarel B HoyngEiko K de JongB Jeroen Klevering

Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (2020)

Functional visual acuity in at least one eye was achieved or preserved in most patients. After 10 years, about a quarter of all patients underwent a re-vitrectomy, while more than half of the patients needed a vitrectomy of the fellow eye. Knowledge of these long-term outcomes is essential when counselling patients for a vitrectomy.

Keyphrases

diabetic retinopathy
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors