Strabismus Surgery Reoperation Rates With Adjustable and Conventional Sutures.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the association of strabismus surgery reoperation rates with adjustable or conventional sutures.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Methods

setting: Review of a large national private insurance database.

Study population

Adults aged 18-89 having strabismus surgery between 2007 and 2011.

Intervention

Adjustable vs conventional suture strabismus surgery.

Outcome measure

Reoperation rate in the first postoperative year.

Results

Overall, 526 of 6178 surgical patients had a reoperation (8.5%). Reoperations were performed after 8.1% of adjustable suture surgeries and after 8.6% of conventional suture surgeries (P = .57). Of the 4357 horizontal muscle surgeries, reoperations were performed after 5.8% of adjustable sut

SUBMITTER: Leffler CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4506871 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature