J.ophthalmol.(Ukraine).2022;1:30-36.
http://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh20223036
Received: 11 January 2022; Published on-line: 15 March 2022
Efficacy of the modified staged method of surgical treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Vira S Ponomarchuk, A. R. Korol, M. M. Umanets
SI "The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the NAMS of Ukraine"; Odesa (Ukraine)
E-mail: v.zavodnaya@gmail.com
TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Ponomarchuk Vira S, Korol A. R., Umanets M. M. Efficacy of the modified staged method of surgical treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. J.ophthalmol.(Ukraine).2022;1:30-6. http://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh20223036
Background. Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents have been successfully used to reduce the incidence of perioperative and postoperative complications in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of a modified staged method of surgical treatment for PDR which involves intravitreal aflibercept (IVA) injection 1-mg prior to vitrectomy.
Material and Methods: This study involved 75 patients (75 eyes) with PDR. Group 1 (the control group) received vitrectomy only; Group 2, IVA 1.0 mg prior to vitrectomy; and Group 3, IVA 2.0 mg prior to vitrectomy.
Results: Mean visual acuity at 2 months and 6 months was significantly better in eyes treated with aflibercept than in those not treated with aflibercept (p1-2 = 0.0001; p1-3 = 0.0001). In the early postoperative period, transient vitreous hemorrhage was observed significantly more frequently in the control group than in group 2 (p1-2 = 0.0003) or group 3 (p1-3 = 0.0004). The incidence of transient vitreous hemorrhage within 2 months after vitrectomy was also significantly higher in the control group than in group 2 (p1-2=0.09) or group 3 (p1-2=0.017). By 6 months after surgery, rubeosis developed in 5 eyes (16.1%) of the control group, and in no eye of the 44 eyes that received intravitreal aflibercept (р= 0.02).
Conclusion: Our modified staged method of surgical treatment for PDR enabled an improvement in visual acuity at 2 months and 6 months after surgery; a reduction in the incidence of transient vitreous hemorrhage in the early postoperative period; and reduction in the risk of the development of iris rubeosis in the late period after surgery.
Keywords: proliferative diabetic retinopathy, intravitreal aflibercept, vitrectomy
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Acknowledgement: The authors thank O.I. Dragomiretska for her assistance in statistic analysis.
Author Contributions: Vira S. Ponomarchuk: conducting intravitreal injections, data collection and analysis, writing the text; A.R. Korol: idea to use 1 mg aflibercept, editing the text; M.M.Umanets: concept and design of the study, surgical interventions, and editing.
Disclosures: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Source of support: There are no external sources of funding.