Vitreoretinal surgery in Behcet's disease with severe ocular complications

Purpose: To investigate effects of vitreoretinal surgery in Behcet's diseas e. Materials and Method: Vitreoretinal surgery was applied to 26 eyes of 21 pa tients with Behcet's disease. Preoperative and postoperative visual acuitie s, number and duration of attacks, anterior and posterior segment pathologi es were evaluated. Results: The mean age of the patients was 33 gears and female/male ratio wa s 6/15, The mean follow-up was 23 months. Visual acuity increased in 15 eye s (58%), did not change in 11 eyes (42%), In the postoperative period, ther e was a significant decrease in mean number of uveitis attacks compared to the preoperative period (p=0.001), as well as a significant decrease in the mean duration of uveitis attacks (p=0.001), In the postoperative follow-up , intravitreal haemorrhage in 2 eyes (8%), posterior subcapsular cataract i n 5 eyes (19%) and corticonuclear cataract in 2 eyes (8%) were observed. Po sterior capsular opacification (PCO) developed in 5 of 16 eyes (31%) having ECLE-IOL, CME continued in 3 eyes (12%). Conclusion: Vitreoretinal surgery has favourable effect on the visual and a natomic prognosis in Behcet's patients with severe ocular complications.