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Forty-six cases of vitreous loss during planned extracapsular cataract extraction salvaged by anterior vitrectomy and primary anterior chamber lens implantation were compared in a retrospective cohort study with 92 individually matched controls. The postoperative visual outcome for cases with vitreous loss was significantly poorer than that for controls even after adjustment for confounding variables. Part of this visual morbidity was explained by cystoid macular oedema and retinal detachment, but even after adjusting for these two complications visual outcome remained worse among cases than controls. There was a significantly higher incidence of clinically apparent cystoid macular oedema amongst cases compared with controls (20% versus 1%). Two retinal detachments occurred among the cases but this difference in incidence was not statistically significant.
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Frost, N., Sparrow, J., Strong, N. et al. Vitreous loss in planned extracapsular cataract extraction does lead to a poorer visual outcome. Eye 9, 446–451 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1995.104
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