Vitectomy
What’s the success rate of removing floaters with a Vitrectomy procedure?
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Professor Andrew Luff, Ophthalmic Surgeon and Founding Consultant, explains what success might mean for a vitrectomy procedure to remove floaters. He shares that he and his team will seek to understand the root cause of your vision problems so they can advise on the treatment you might need to be satisfied with your vision.
Professor Andrew Luff, Ophthalmic Surgeon and Founding Consultant, explains what success might mean for a vitrectomy procedure to remove floaters. He shares that he and his team will seek to understand the root cause of your vision problems so they can advise on the treatment you might need to be satisfied with your vision.
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So this very much depends upon how we define success. If the question is, can we remove floaters? The answer is yes, almost a hundred percent of floaters will be removed, and this simply cannot come back. A tiny, tiny number of floaters can remain which tend to clear with time, making people happy, may be a slightly different concept. It may be that vitreous opacity isn’t the only problem. A patient with vitreous opacity may also have cataract. We need to decide to what extent your problems are due to vitreous opacity and to what extent other pathologies, most commonly cataract lens opacity.
