USE OF GEL-LIKE DRAINAGE IMPLANT FOR INTRASCLERAL BUCKLES IN THE TREATMENT OF LOCAL RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENTS

Abstract

Retinal detachment is a serious pathological condition, that is common for every age groups of patients. Episcleral buckling remains a method of choice to treat non-complicated rhematogenous retinal detachment, despite the tendency for a wider use of vitrec-tomy pars plana. But methods of extrascleral surgery for rematogenous retinal detachment do not exclude the development of a set of complications.The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of a method of microinvasive dose intrascleral buckling in the treatment of local rhematogenous retinal detachment using gel-like drainage implant.The in-hospital surgical treatment was conducted on 9 patients with local rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. All patients underwent intrascleral buckling with the introduction of a drainage implant. Positive anatomical effect and improvement of functionalresults were achieved in 89% cases. In two-months’ time one patient was registered with recurrent retinal detachment.Thus, intrascleral buckling with gel-like drainage provides high efficacy of surgical treatment for retinal detachment showing minimal injury and can be recommended to treat local rhematogenous non-complicated retinal detachment.