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Long-term outcomes in patients undergoing vitrectomy for retinal detachment due to viral retinitis

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Ophthalmology, July 2015
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Title
Long-term outcomes in patients undergoing vitrectomy for retinal detachment due to viral retinitis
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Clinical Ophthalmology, July 2015
DOI 10.2147/opth.s87644
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David RP Almeida, Eric K Chin, Ryan M Tarantola, Elizabeth O Tegins, Christopher A Lopez, Herbert Culver Boldt, Karen M Gehrs, Elliott H Sohn, Stephen R Russell, James C Folk, Vinit B Mahajan

Abstract

To determine the outcomes in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) secondary to viral retinitis. This was a retrospective, consecutive, noncomparative, interventional case series of 12 eyes in ten patients with RRD secondary to viral retinitis. Results of vitreous or aqueous biopsy, effect of antiviral therapeutics, time to retinal detachment, course of visual acuity, and anatomic and surgical outcomes were investigated. There were 1,259 cases of RRD during the study period, with 12 cases of RRD secondary to viral retinitis (prevalence of 0.95%). Follow-up was available for a mean period of 4.4 years. Varicella zoster virus was detected in six eyes, herpes simplex virus in two eyes, and cytomegalovirus in two eyes. Eight patients were treated with oral valacyclovir and two patients with intravenous acyclovir. Lack of optic nerve involvement correlated with improved final visual acuity of 20/100 or greater. Pars plana vitrectomy (n=12), silicone-oil tamponade (n=11), and scleral buckling (n=10) provided successful anatomic retinal reattachment in all cases, with no recurrent retinal detachment and no cases of hypotony during the follow-up period. Varicella zoster virus was the most frequent cause of viral retinitis, and lack of optic nerve involvement was predictive of a favorable visual acuity prognosis. Vitrectomy with silicone-oil tamponade and scleral buckle placement provided stable anatomical outcomes.

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Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Postgraduate 3 13%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 8%
Student > Master 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 10 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 50%
Unknown 12 50%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 August 2015.
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#14,600,874
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Ophthalmology
#1,036
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#126,564
of 277,613 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Ophthalmology
#21
of 86 outputs
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