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Is optimal timing of choroidal drainage in the case of kissing choroidals with hypotony after glaucoma surgery different in a vitrectomized eye?

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Ophthalmology · South Coast Retina Center
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To answer the question, probably the timing is not different for a vitrectomized eye. One could make the case for more immediate surgery in the sense that there is no vitreous buffer between appositional retina layers, but I doubt there's much data to support that. On the subject of timing in genera...

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Ophthalmology · Vitreoretinal Consultants Of New York
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When choroidal detachment is secondary to hypotony, treatment should be to resolve the cause of hypotony (in this case, overdrainage), and the choroidal detachment should resolve. I would not drain choroidal detachment in a hypotonous eye.

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