From the Dept. of Ophthalmology, LabbafineJad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti UniversiIy of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract: (3681 Views)
Retinal detachment surgery has been considered an inpatient hospital
procedure requiring preoperative and postoperative hospitalization. In this
pilot study, outpatient retinal detachment surgery was performed on sixteen
patients and the results (100% success rate after an average follow-up of 8.3
months) were comparable or better than reported overall success rates for
retinal detachment in the literature.
This prospective and non-randomized study, although small in scale,
suggests that ambulatory retinal detachment surgery is safe and successful.
This is the first report on outpatient retinal detachment surgery in world
ophthalmic literature.