Table 1.
Reports of primary vitrectomy for the treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
| Author | Year | Buckle | No | Primary success | Final success | PVR | ≥0.33 | ≥0.4 | ≥0.5 |
| Escoffery17 | 1985 | 0% | 29 | 79% | 79% | 7% | 76% | ||
| van Effenterre18 | 1987 | 0% | 60 | 86% | 92% | 0% | 76% | ||
| Hakin19 | 1993 | 79% | 124 | 64% | 82% | 34% | |||
| Gartry13 | 1993 | 65% | 114 | 74% | 92% | 8% | 35% | ||
| Girard20 | 1995 | 81% | 103 | 74% | 85% | 16% | 40% | ||
| Höing21 | 1995 | 0% | 32 | 78% | 94% | 19% | 44% | ||
| Bartz-Schmidt5 | 1996 | 100% | 33 | 94% | 100% | 3% | 79% | ||
| Heimann22 | 1996 | 0% | 53 | 64% | 92% | 6% | 41% | ||
| Yang23 | 1997 | 100% | 9 | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | ||
| El-Asrar10 | 1997 | 100% | 22 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 32% | ||
| Desai24 | 1997 | 100% | 10 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 70% | ||
| Hoerauf25 | 1997 | 83% | 37 | 87% | 8% | ||||
| Sharma7 | 1998 | 100% | 21 | 90% | 90% | 10% | 19% | ||
| Brazitikos26 | 1999 | 36% | 14 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 69% | ||
| Campo27 | 1999 | 0% | 275 | 88% | 96% | 6% | 69% | ||
| Devenyi6 | 1999 | 100% | 94 | 100% | 100% | 0% | |||
| Newman28 | 1999 | 48% | 25 | 84% | 96% | 8% | 48% | ||
| Oshima29 | 1999 | 51% | 63 | 92% | 100% | 0% | |||
| Brazitikos30 | 2000 | 103 | 93% | 97% | 4% | ||||
| Brazitikos30 | 2000 | 0% | 20 | 85% | 95% | 10% | |||
| Gastaud31 | 2000 | 58% | 19 | 84% | 100% | 0% | |||
| Pournaras32 | 2000 | 100% | 23 | 92% | 100% | 4% | 65% | ||
| Speicher33 | 2000 | 0% | 78 | 94% | 96% | 5% | |||
| Miki8 | 2000 | 87 | 92% | 100% | 1% | ||||
| Tanner34 | 2001 | 0% | 9 | 89% | 100% | 0% | 67% | ||
PVR = proliferative vitreoretinopathy, VA = visual acuity.