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. 2019 Jun 18;12(6):996–1000. doi: 10.18240/ijo.2019.06.19

Table 2. Intraoperative variables in all 394 patients with comparison between eyes with and without the development of IRT.

Parameters Iatrogenic tear (n=11) No iatrogenic tear (n=383) Pa
20-gauge PPV 45 16 0.02
Triamcinolone acetonide used 64 71 0.74
Viewing system, BIOM/AVI/RESIGHT/EIBOS 46/18/18/18 38/32/19/12 0.76
Retina surgeons (Barak Y, Barr C, Saleh O, Schaal S) 36/27/18/18 43/26/17/14 0.93

IRT: Iatrogenic retinal tears; PPV: Pars plana vitrectomy; BIOM: BIOM® (OCULUS Surgical, Inc., Wetzlar, Germany); AVI: A.V.I.® (Advanced Visual Instruments, Inc., NY, USA); RESIGHT: Resight 700® (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena, Germany); EIBOS: EIBOS® (HAAG-STREIT SURGICAL, Wedel, Germany). aChi-square with Yates correction.

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