Northern New Zealand rhegmatogenous retinal detachment study: Epidemiology and risk factors

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-163

  Polkinghorne, Philip J ^a,b   Craig, Jennifer P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Incidence; New Zealand; Retinal detachment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PATHOGENESIS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 2442457890     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00003.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Tornquist R, Stenkula S, Tornquist P. Retinal detachment. A study of a population-based patient material in Sweden 1971-1981. I. Epidemiology. Acta Ophthalmol 1987; 65: 213-22.
2. Algvere PV, Jahnerg P, Textorius O. The Swedish Retinal Detachment Register. I. A database for epidemiological and clinical studies. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1999; 237: 137-44.
3. Laatikainen L, Tolppanen E-M, Harju H. Epidemiology of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment of a Finnish population. Acta Ophthalmol (Copenb) 1985; 63: 59-64.
4. Ivanisevic M, Bojic L, Eterovic D. Epidemiological study of nontraumatic phakic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Ophthalmic Res 2000; 32: 237-9.
5. Rosner M, Treister G, Belkin M. Epidemiology of retinal detachment in children and adolescence. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 1987; 24: 42-4.
6. Haimann MH, Burton TC, Brown CK. Epidemiology of retinal detachment. Arch Ophthalmol 1982; 100: 289-92.
7. Rowe JA, Erie JC, Brats KH et al. Retinal detachment in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1976 through 1995. Ophthalmology 1999; 106: 154-9.
8. Sasaki K, Idea H, Yosemite J et al. Epidemiological characteristics of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in Kumamoto, Japan. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1995; 233: 772-6.
9. The Eye Disease Case-Control Study Group. Risk factors for idiopathic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Am J Epidemiol 1993; 137: 749-57.
10. Statistics New Zealand. 1996 New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings. Wellington: Statistics New Zealand, 1996. Available from: http://www.stats.govt.nz
11. Desai P. Cataract surgery and retinal detachment: cause and effect? Br J Ophthalmol 1996; 80: 683-4.
12. Norregaard JC, Thoning H, Anderson TF et al. Risk of retinal detachment following cataract extraction: results from the International Cataract Surgery Outcomes Study. Br J Ophthalmol 1996; 80: 689-93.
13. Riley AF, Malik TY, Grupcheva CN et al. The Auckland cataract study: co-morbidity, surgical techniques, and clinical outcomes in a public hospital service. Br J Ophthalmol 2002; 86: 185-90.
14. Javitt JC, Street DA, Tielsch JM et al. National outcomes of cataract extraction. Retinal detachment and endophthalmitis after cataract Surgery. Ophthalmology 1994; 101: 100-6.
15. McHugh D, Wong D, Chignall A et al. Pseudophakic retinal detachment. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1991; 229: 521-5.
16. Le Mesurier R, Vickers S, Booth-Mason S et al. Aphakic retinal detachment. Br J Ophthalmol 1985; 69: 895-902.