A Prospective Study of Biometric Stability After Scleral Buckling Surgery
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A Prospective Study of Biometric Stability After Scleral Buckling Surgery CHEE WAI WONG, MARCUS ANG, ANDREW TSAI, VAL PHUA, AND SHU YEN LEE PURPOSE: To assess time to stabilization and factors HE USE OF SCLERAL IMPLANTS IN THE TREATMENT OF associated with changes in biometric parameters after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) dates scleral buckling (SB). back to 1937, when Jess reported the use of a gauze T 1 DESIGN: Prospective case series. pad as the scleral implant. Schepens and associates intro- METHODS: Seventeen eyes with primary rhegmatoge- duced the modern scleral buckling (SB) technique in 1957, nous retinal detachment (RRD) that underwent SB at using a permanent implant such as polyethylene and, later, the Singapore National Eye Centre were enrolled. SB soft silicone rubber.1 This well-tolerated technique surgery was performed using an encircling element and increased the anatomic success rate of SB surgery from segmental buckle. Axial length (AL); anterior chamber 40% to 90%. However, the use of a scleral buckle inher- depth (ACD), defined as the distance from the corneal ently changes the anatomy of the eye. Depending on the epithelium to the anterior lens surface; anterior/posterior type of buckling material used, location, and tension of corneal curvature (K); and refraction were measured scleral sutures with the circumferential tightening of the preoperatively and at week 1 and months 1, 3, 6, 9, and buckle, the resultant geometric changes to the globe can 12 postoperatively. Stability of each parameter was cause visually significant changes. These changes include defined as the earliest time point at which there is no alteration of the axial length (AL),2–11 anterior chamber significant difference compared to its value at month 12. depth (ACD, defined as the distance from the corneal 7,9 RESULTS: AL increased (26.09 ± 1.46 to 26.51 ± 1.96, epithelium to the anterior lens surface), and induced P [ .01), ACD decreased (3.84 ± 0.47 to 3.32 ± 0.57, P spherical or astigmatic refractive errors.3,6,8,10,11 < .001), and a myopic shift of 1.04 diopters (95% CI These biometric changes are important, as cataract 0.03–2.05, P [ .04) occurred at month 12. Anterior/ development and/or progression happen commonly after posterior K were not significantly changed from baseline. vitreoretinal procedures. In the Scleral Buckling versus Pri- AL stabilized at month 3 while ACD and spherical equiv- mary Vitrectomy in RRD trial, almost half of all eyes that alent (SE) stabilized at week 1. Cryotherapy was associ- underwent SB developed or had progression of cataract ated with greater increase in AL (P [ .001) and after a mean follow-up duration of 387.6 6 180.6 days.12 myopic shift (P [ .02). More extensive segmental buck- In another recent study by Feng and Adelman,13 38% of ling was associated with greater increase in AL eyes developed cataracts after SB, of which 5.7% required (P [ .009) and myopic shift (P [ .03). extraction at a mean of 11 months after surgery. Nuclear CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that patients sclerosis and posterior subcapsular opacities were the requiring cataract surgery after SB should have biometry most common cataracts after SB.13 In a meta-analysis performed no earlier than 3 months post SB surgery, and done by Lv and associates, cataract formation post scleral intraocular lens power calculation with a fourth- buckle surgery was seen in 23.6% compared with 53.1% generation formula. A greater increase in AL and myopic in eyes that have undergone trans–pars plana vitrectomy shift was associated with cryotherapy and more extensive (TPPV) for primary RRD.14 segmental buckling. (Am J Ophthalmol 2016;165: However, there remains considerable uncertainty 47–53. Ó 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.) regarding the optimal timing of biometric assessment and, thereafter, cataract surgery post RRD repair by SB. Some studies have shown changes in axial length and ante- rior chamber depth that continue beyond 12 months, while 2–9 Supplemental Material available at AJO.com. others have shown stabilization within 3 months. Accepted for publication Feb 19, 2016. Moreover, various parameters may be altered From Singapore National Eye Centre (C.W.W., M.A., A.T., V.P., differentially, which makes it difficult to predict how and S.Y.L.), Singapore Eye Research Institute (C.W.W., M.A., A.T., S.Y.L.), Duke-NUS, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in which direction the overall refractive power of a post- (M.A., S.Y.L.), Singapore; and Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Trust, SB eye will change. Moreover, the effect of SB on posterior London, United Kingdom (M.A.). corneal astigmatism, increasingly recognized as an impor- Inquiries to Adjunct Assoc Prof Shu Yen Lee, Singapore National Eye 15 Centre, 11 Third Hospital Ave, Singapore 168751; e-mail: lee.shu.yen@ tant contributor to the total astigmatism of the eye, is snec.com.sg currently unknown. It is also unknown how other surgical 0002-9394/$36.00 Ó 2016 ELSEVIER INC.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 47 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajo.2016.02.023 factors, such as the use of cryotherapy, gas tamponade, and 12, adjusting for multiple comparisons with Bonferroni extent of buckling, may influence changes in ocular correction. Stability of each parameter was defined as the biometry. earliest time point at which there was no significant differ- As patients with RRD repaired by SB tend to be younger, ence with its value at month 12. economically active patients,16 accurate biometry is impor- A linear mixed-effects model multivariate analysis was tant to achieve good outcomes should they require cataract conducted to account for repeated measurements and loss surgery subsequently. Thus, we conducted a prospective of some follow-up data. Variance-covariance/correlation longitudinal study to assess the biometric changes after structures such as compound symmetry and independent SB surgery and the influence of surgical factors on biomet- and autoregressive structures were used to estimate the ric changes. model fit based on Hurvich and Tsai’s criterion (AICc) and using the smaller-the-better information criterion. This model was used to analyze the multivariate relation- ship of biometric parameters with clock hours of scleral METHODS buckling, cryotherapy, and endotamponade, adjusting for age and sex. Significance was defined as P < .05. IN THIS PROSPECTIVE STUDY, WE INCLUDED CONSECUTIVE cases with primary RRD requiring SB surgery without vitrectomy, at the Singapore National Eye Centre, be- tween May 2012 and March 2013. The study was performed RESULTS with prospective approval from the Singhealth Institu- tional Review Board and in accordance with the Declara- TABLE 1 SHOWS THE BASELINE DEMOGRAPHICS AND CLIN- tion of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained ical characteristics of our study cohort. The mean age was from all participants. All scleral buckling procedures were 47.0 6 13.9 years and 62.5% of subjects were male. Most performed by 4 senior vitreoretinal surgeons using the eyes were phakic with no lens opacity (64.7%) preopera- same surgical technique, briefly: encirclage with silicone tively, while none of the study eyes had proliferative bands (reference number 240; MIRA Inc, Uxbridge, Mas- vitreoretinopathy. The most commonly used segmental sachusetts, USA) and segmental silicone tires. The encir- buckle was the 277 (13 eyes, 76.5%), followed by the cling band was fixed 10–12 mm posterior to the limbus 276 (3 eyes, 17.6%). The vast majority of eyes underwent with a 5.0 nylon suture. External drainage of subretinal drainage of subretinal fluid (94.1%). Gas tamponade was fluid was performed where possible. Retinopexy with performed with either air (41.2%) or sulfur hexafluoride cryotherapy intraoperatively and endotamponade with (47.1%). Intraoperative cryotherapy was the preferred injection of air or an expansile gas were additional proce- method of sealing retinal breaks (70.6%). Primary dures performed at the surgeon’s discretion. Postopera- anatomic success was achieved in 100% of patients. tively, all patients routinely used Tobradex eye drops 4 Three eyes with pre-existing cataract had significant times daily and atropine sulfate 1% 3 times daily for progression of the cataract (17.6%), but none of these 2–4 weeks. The following SB surgery–related variables eyes underwent cataract surgery within the duration of were collected: type and extent of segmental silicone tire, the study. whether subretinal fluid drainage was performed, whether The mean values of biometric parameters at each time cryotherapy or postoperative laser retinopexy was point are shown in Table 2. SB surgery resulted in performed, and the use of endotamponade. significantly longer AL (26.09 6 1.46 mm vs We performed a full clinical evaluation and all measure- 26.51 6 1.96 mm, P ¼ .01) and vitreous length (VL) ments were made pre- and postoperatively at 1 week and at (22.25 6 1.66 mm vs 23.26 6 0.28 mm, P ¼ .001), as 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, specifically: axial length measure- well as shallower ACD (3.84 6 0.47 mm vs ments by IOLMaster (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany; 3.32 6 0.57 mm, P < .001) at 12 months after surgery, software version 5.4), ACD in the horizontal meridian compared to preoperative values. Overall manifest using anterior segment optical coherence tomography astigmatism increased initially at week 1 (ASOCT; Visante; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany; (cylinder: À1.56 6 1.05 diopters [D]) but decreased back software version 3.0),17 automated refraction, automated to preoperative levels at month 12 (À0.81 6 0.28 D). keratometry (Topcon KR 8800 Auto-kerato- Both anterior and posterior cornea astigmatism increased refractometer; Topcon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), and post SB to a maximum of 2.01 6 1.13 D (baseline corneal topography with the Pentacam (Oculus GmbH, 1.26 6 0.67 D) and 0.40 6 0.26 D (baseline 0.24 6 0.20 Wetzlar, Germany; software version 1.17).