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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2016 May 22;123(8):1802–1808. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.04.033

Table 2.

Indications and Surgical and Anesthesia Times for Immediate Sequential Bilateral Pediatric Vitreoretinal Surgery

Diagnosis No. of Eyes (%) Mean Surgical Time (SD; Minutes) Mean Anesthesia Time (SD; Minutes)
ROP 250 (72.7) 138 (60) 203 (79)
 Stage 3*   12 (4.8) 134 (40) 177 (43)
 Stage 4A 111 (44.4) 127 (46) 194 (66)
 Stage 4B   56 (22.4) 126 (69) 212 (103)
 Unspecified stage 4     5 (2.0)     —     —
 Stage 5   66 (26.4) 172 (70) 219 (86)
FEVR   24 (7.0) 128 (68) 188 (98)
Abusive head   14 (4.1) 113 (55) 150 (52)
trauma
PFVS   12 (3.5) 111 (82) 148 (74)
Norrie disease     8 (2.3) 182 (—) 224 (—)
Congenital cataract     6 (1.7) 174 (131) 214 (152)
PCO     6 (1.7)   50 (—)   86 (—)
RRD     6 (1.7) 219 (—) 267 (—)
CXLRS     4 (1.2) 105 (31) 156 (75)
Viral retinitis     4 (1.2) 138 (—) 197 (—)
Other   10 (2.9)   85 (64) 106 (72)

CXLRS =congenital X-linked retinoschisis; FEVR = familial exudative vitreoretinopathy; PCO = posterior capsular opacification; PFV = persistent fetal vasculature; ROP = retinopathy of prematurity; RRD= rhegmatogenous retinal detachment; SD = standard deviation; — = unavailable.

*

For vitreous hemorrhage.

Cytomegalovirus (2 eyes) and acute retinal necrosis (2 eyes), both with retinal detachment.

Microspherophakia with pupillary block (3 eyes), suprachoroidal hemorrhage in an eye with a history of microspherophakia after lens extraction (1 eye), unspecified retinal dysplasia (2 eyes), unspecified uveitis with tractional retinal detachment (2 eyes), and hemolytic uremic syndrome with tractional retinal detachment (2 eyes).