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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 7 | Page : 1432-1435 |
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Incidence and management of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after pars plana vitrectomy and sutureless scleral-fixated intraocular lens
Karthik Kumar, Piyush Kohli, Naresh Babu, Gauri Khare, Kim Ramasamy
Department of Vitreo-Retinal Services, Aravind Eye Hospital and Post Graduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
| Date of Submission | 26-Oct-2019 |
| Date of Acceptance | 18-Feb-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 25-Jun-2020 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Piyush Kohli
Department of Vitreo-Retinal Services, Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1974_19
Purpose: To evaluate the incidence, risk factor(s), and surgical outcomes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with sutureless scleral-fixated intraocular lens implantation (SFIOL). Methods: Records of patients (1311 eyes, 1234 patients) who underwent PPV and sutureless SFIOL from 2017 to 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Results: The indications SFIOL were subluxated lens (33.7%), dislocated IOL (21.7%), surgical aphakia (20.1%), congenital lens subluxation (11.1%), nucleus drop (6.9%), and post-open globe injury (OGI) repair (6.5%). History of closed-globe injury (CGI) was present in 27.2% eyes.Twenty-two eyes (1.7%) developed RRD. The incidence of RRD in eyes, which underwent SFIOL surgery for subluxated lens, dislocated IOL, surgical aphakia, congenital lens subluxation, nucleus drop, and post-OGI repair was 1.4% (n = 6), 2.5% (n = 7), 1.1% (n = 3), 3.4% (n = 5), 0 and 1.2% (n = 1), respectively (P = 0.382). The incidence of RRD in eyes with and without CGI was 1.7% each (P = 0.996).Twenty-one eyes underwent RD surgery. Retinal reattachment was achieved in 76.2% eyes, while 66.7% eyes required only one surgery. The eyes in which retina failed to reattach had a high grade of proliferative vitreoretinopathy present at the time of presentation. Final best-corrected visual acuity of ≥20/60 and <20/60 to ≥20/200 and <20/200 was seen in 38.1%, 19.0%, and 42.9% eyes. Conclusion: Eyes with the congenital subluxated lens are at a marginally higher risk of developing post-SFIOL RRD. The surgical outcome of RD surgery in these eyes is good.
Keywords: Closed globe injury (CGI), ectopia lentis, open globe injury (OGI), rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), sutureless SFIOL
How to cite this article:
Kumar K, Kohli P, Babu N, Khare G, Ramasamy K. Incidence and management of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after pars plana vitrectomy and sutureless scleral-fixated intraocular lens. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:1432-5 |
Implantation of intraocular lens (IOL) in-the-bag is the best option following cataract surgery. However, this is not possible in the absence of adequate capsular support like in cases of trauma, complicated cataract surgery, congenital subluxation, pseudoexfoliation (PXF), etc, The surgical options available for the visual rehabilitation of such eyes are anterior chamber intraocular lens (ACIOL), iris-fixated IOL (IFIOL), and scleral-fixated IOL (SFIOL).[1] However, owing to the vitreous disturbance caused by the breach of the posterior lens capsule, surgery in such eyes can be complicated by rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).[2],[3],[4]
This study was done to analyze the incidence, risk factor(s), characteristics, and surgical outcomes of RRD in the eyes undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with sutureless, glueless SFIOL.
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This was a retrospective study conducted at a tertiary-care eye hospital in South India. The study was conducted with the approval of the Institutional Review Board (Registration No. ECR/182/INST/TN/2013, dated 20.04.2013, Project code RET201700218) and adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was taken from the patients or their attendants (in case the patient was <18 years old) after explaining the nature of the surgery and the associated complications.
All the patients who underwent PPV with sutureless, glueless SFIOL from 2016 to 2018 were included in the study. All the eyes were pre-operatively screened for the presence of any retinal breaks. In case retinal break(s) were noted, they were barraged with laser photocoagulation and taken up for SFIOL surgery after at least one month. The patients who had undergone RRD surgery prior to SFIOL surgery, had open globe injury (OGI) in zone III, or were lost to follow-up before 6 months were excluded from the study.
The case records were analyzed for demographic details; indication for which SFIOL was done; the history of prior ocular injuries and surgeries; presence or absence of RRD post-SFIOL; characteristics and surgical outcome of RRD.
Surgical technique
Around 270° superior conjunctival peritomy was done followed by light scleral cautery to the vessels. Two partial thickness scleral pockets were made 180° apart, 1.5 mm away, and parallel to the limbus, with the help of a 25 G microvitreoretinal (MVR) trocar blade. A sclerocorneal tunnel was constructed superiorly with the help of a crescent blade. Vitrectomy was then done. The induction of posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) was not done in any of the cases. In case of dislocated lens or nucleus drop, pars plana lensectomy (PPL) was done with the help of a vitrectomy cutter or a fragmentome, depending on the hardness of the lens. Two ciliary sulcus-based sclerotomies were made close to the scleral pockets using a 22 G round needle. Then, anterior chamber entry was done through the sclerocorneal tunnel with the help of a keratome blade. A standard three-piece non-foldable IOL (Aurolab; Madurai, India) was used. The leading haptic was grasped at the tip with a 25-gauge end gripping forceps (Alcon Laboratories; Fort Worth, Texas, USA) and externalized through the ciliary sulcus-based sclerotomy and tucked into the scleral pocket. Tailing haptic was then dialed into the posterior chamber, grasped and externalized through the opposite sclerotomy under binocular indirect ophthalmomicroscope (BIOM) visualization. The second haptic was also tucked into the other scleral pocket. The retinal periphery was carefully inspected to look for any intraoperative breaks, which if present were treated with endolaser. The vitrectomy ports, sclerocorneal tunnel, and conjunctiva were sutured and inspected for wound leakage.
In case the dislocated IOL was a single-piece IOL, it was explanted through the sclerocorneal tunnel and a new three-piece IOL was installed as SFIOL following the steps as described above. However, if the dislocated IOL was a three-piece IOL, it was re-fixated as SFIOL. In these cases, only a localized peritomy was required at 3 and 9'o clock for the construction of the two scleral pockets and the adjacent ciliary sulcus-based sclerotomies. After core vitrectomy, the haptics of the same IOL were externalized and incarcerated into the scleral pockets. In these cases, a sclerotunnel was not required.
Statistics
Statistical analysis was performed with STATA statistical software, Version 11.1 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA). Continuous variables were expressed as mean (±standard deviation) and categorical variables were expressed as percentages. Any association between categorical data was seen using Chi-square/Fisher exact test while the difference in continuous data between two groups was seen using student's t-test/Mann–Whitney test. Change in variables after a procedure was done with the help of paired t-test. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
| Results | | |
The study included 1311 eyes of 1234 patients, with a mean age of 52.4 ± 18.9 years (range, 9–92 years) [Figure 1]. The indications for which patients underwent SFIOL were subluxated lens (n = 442, 33.7%), dislocated IOL (n = 285, 21.7%), surgical aphakia (n = 263, 20.1%), congenital lens subluxation (n = 146, 11.1%), nucleus drop (n = 90, 6.9%), and post-open globe injury (OGI) repair (n = 85, 6.5%). The patients with dislocated IOL underwent either IOL explantation along with new SFIOL (73 eyes) or refixation of the same IOL as SFIOL (212 eyes) depending on the type of IOL (as described in methods). A history of closed-globe injury (CGI) was present in 357 eyes (27.2%) [Table 1]. | Figure 1: Flowchart representing the number of eyes, which developed retinal detachment after scleral-fixated intraocular lens surgery and the outcomes of retinal detachment surgery
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 | Table 1: Indications for which patients underwent scleral-fixated intraocular lens
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Out of 1311 eyes, 22 (1.7%) eyes developed RRD. The patients presented at a mean period of 76.4 ± 54.3 days after the SFIOL surgery (range, 10 to 230 days). The interval between the SFIOL surgery and presentation with RRD was <1, 1-3, 3-6, and >6 months in 5, 11, 5, and 1 eyes, respectively. Among the patients who underwent bilateral surgery, none developed bilateral RRD. The incidence of RRD in the eyes, which underwent SFIOL surgery for subluxated lens, dislocated IOL, surgical aphakia, congenital lens subluxation, nucleus drop, and post-OGI repair was 1.4% (n = 6), 2.5% (n = 7), 1.1% (n = 3), 3.4% (n = 5), 0 and 1.2% (n = 1), respectively (P = 0.382). No association was found between RRD and various indications of SFIOL (P = 0.339). The incidence of RRD was 2.4% (n = 5/212) in the eyes, which underwent IOL explantation along with a new SFIOL and 2.7% (n = 2/73) in the eyes, which underwent re-fixation of same IOL as SFIOL (P = 0.914). The incidence of RRD in the eyes with and without a history of CGI was 1.7% (n = 6/357) and 1.7% (n = 16/954), respectively (P = 0.996). The mean age of patients who developed post-SFIOL RD was 46.6 years while the age of those who did not develop RD was 52.4 years (P = 0.146).
At the time of presentation, seven eyes had total RD; while the rest 15 eyes had localized RRD. The types of breaks responsible for the RD were horse-shoe tear (HST), giant retinal tear (GRT), and retinal dialysis in 12, 4, and 3 eyes, respectively while in 3 eyes no break could be identified. One eye had a full-thickness macular hole (FTMH).
Out of the 22 eyes that developed RD, 21 eyes underwent retinal reattachment surgery, i.e., PPV with silicone oil (SO) tamponade. An inferior periphery iridectomy (PI) was made in all the cases. SFIOL explanation was not required in any of the eyes. After single RD surgery, retinal reattachment was achieved in 14 (66.7%) eyes. Out of the seven eyes that did not achieve retinal reattachment, six eyes underwent further surgery. Overall, retinal reattachment was achieved in 16 (76.2%) eyes. All these 16 eyes underwent SO removal (SOR), with no recurrence of RRD. The five eyes in which retina failed to reattach despite RD surgery had proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) grade C or higher at the time of presentation. Among the eyes that failed to reattach, two (9.5%) eyes had a shallow subretinal fluid inferior to the inferior arcade with good vision, while three (14.3%) had a poor prognosis due to advanced PVR changes. Final best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of ≥20/60 and <20/60 to ≥20/200 and <20/200 was seen in eight (38.1%), four (19.0%), and nine (42.9%) eyes.
| Discussion | | |
The treatment of aphakia is one of the daunting tasks for ocular surgeons.[1] SFIOL surgery is associated with a number of complications, among which RRD is one of the gravest. A number of studies have evaluated the complication profile associated with different techniques of SFIOL.[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17] However, due to its rarity, not many studies have evaluated the management of post-SFIOL RRD.
We retrospectively reviewed the records of 1311 eyes, which underwent SFIOL for various indications. The trailing haptic was dialed into the posterior segment instead of doing handshake in the anterior segment as the space available for manipulation is greater in the posterior segment. As a result, the second haptic can externalize without compromising the stability of the anterior chamber. Since all patients underwent vitrectomy, manipulation in the posterior segment was safe. PVD was not induced actively in any case as it can create peripheral retinal breaks and even intraoperative RRD. Singh et al.reported a higher incidence of retinal breaks after PVD induction in eyes with ectopia lentis.[18] The overall incidence of RRD in our study cohort was 1.7%, which is similar to that reported in literature [Table 2].[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17] The reported incidence of RRD after macular surgeries is also similar.[19],[20] Previous studies have reported trauma and ectopia lentis to be risk factors for developing post-SFIOL RRD.[16],[18],[21],[22],[23] However, such a finding was not noted in our study. The incidence of RRD in patients with a history of CGI was similar to the other cohort of patients (1.7% each). Although eyes with congenital lens subluxation were at a higher risk of developing RRD than other eyes, the difference was not statistically significant. On the contrary, Luebke et al.reported a higher incidence of post-SFIOL RRD in eyes with ectopia lentis compared to other indications (14.8% vs 9.7%).[22] Other authors also have reported an incidence of 1.5–15.4% in eyes with ectopia lentis. | Table 2: Incidence of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) after scleral-fixated intraocular lens (SFIOL) surgery in the clinical studies publishes from 2009-19
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The absence of a formed vitreous in post-vitrectomized eyes predisposes them for early detachment. In our series, the earliest detachment was seen after 10 days, while nearly three-fourth detachments were seen within three months. Sen et al.also reported that one-third of the detachments in their study of post-SFIOL RRD in children occurred within 6 weeks.[13] During the initial vitrectomy, peripheral breaks were not identified in any of the eyes that developed RRD. There was a high incidence of GRT and retinal dialysis in our study. This finding was also similar to that reported by Sen et al., who reported GRT in around one-fifth of the patients.[13] Such breaks may occur due to the trauma to the vitreous base and traction on the peripheral retina during the externalizing of the IOL haptics through the ciliary sulcus-based sclerotomies.[13],[24],[25]
Vitrectomy was the best option for the treatment of RRD in these eyes as they all had undergone prior vitrectomy. The retinal reattachment rate of RD surgery in our study was good. Retinal reattachment was achieved in nearly three-fourth of eyes, with two-third requiring single surgery. All the eyes with failed surgery had advanced PVR. Sen et al.reported a success rate of 87.5%, with 68.7% eyes requiring single surgery. In their study, the final reattachment rate in eyes with and without PVR was 75% and 100%, respectively.[13] These eyes are prone to PVR due to increased inflammation caused by multiple surgeries, trauma, and multiple manoeuvres in both anterior as well as posterior segment. Apart from the eyes with failed surgery, four other eyes also had final BCVA <20/200. Sen et al.also reported a significant loss of BCVA due to the development of RD with recurrence of RD and associated increased number of surgeries having a negative impact on the final visual outcome.[13]
This was the largest study that evaluated the incidence, characteristics, and surgical outcome of post-SFIOL RRD. The results showed that eyes with congenital lens dislocation are associated with a slightly higher risk of RRD while traumatic eyes are not. The surgical outcome of post-SFIOL RRD is good. The limitations of the study include its retrospective design and induction of selection bias as some patients were lost to follow-up. The incidence of RRD may actually have been lower because the patients who have had good postoperative vision are more likely to be lost to follow-up.
| Conclusion | | |
Eyes with the congenital subluxated lens are at a marginally higher risk of developing post-SFIOL RRD. Our study shows that the surgical outcome of RD surgery in these eyes is good.
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