Retinal Detachment.

Kim, Tae Uck

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1971;12(2):73-79.
Published online January 1, 2001.

Retinal Detachment.

Tae Uck Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.

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Abstract

Author presented the clinical evaluation for 21 eyes or patients diagnosed as having retinal detachment due to retinal breaks. These cases were patients who visited this clinic since 1968 to 1970. 10 of these eyes were operated upon. Followings were evaluated. 1. Incidence of retinal detachment due to retinal breaks was approximately 0.17% of the total out patients in our clinic. 2. The age distribution ranged from 11 to 59 years old with two thirds of patients being under 30 years old and in sex difference male seemed to be more prevalent. 3. The intraocular pressure of affected eyes was hypotensive in approximately 76.1% of the cases. 4.50% of the eyes contained retinal dialysis and majority of retinal breaks were found to be in the inferior temporal quadrant. 5. The extent of detachment was limited to one or two quadrants in 56.1% of the eyes and 33.3% of the eyes involved macula. 6. The period of detachment from onset was durated six months or more in 33.3% of the eyes. 7. In 33.3% of the eyes, there was a history of direct ocular trauma, but the correlation between truma and site predilection was not significant. 8. The result of operations, such as lamellar scleral resection, buckling and Arruga's encirclage for these 10 eyes was successful in all cases but an eye of serious postoperative complication, endophthalmitis, resulted in evisceration.