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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Interventions for asymptomatic retinal breaks and lattice degeneration for preventing retinal detachment

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2014
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Title
Interventions for asymptomatic retinal breaks and lattice degeneration for preventing retinal detachment
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2014
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd003170.pub4
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Authors

Charles P Wilkinson

Abstract

Asymptomatic retinal breaks and lattice degeneration are visible lesions that are risk factors for later retinal detachment. Retinal detachments occur when fluid in the vitreous cavity passes through tears or holes in the retina and separates the retina from the underlying retinal pigment epithelium. Creation of an adhesion surrounding retinal breaks and lattice degeneration, with laser photocoagulation or cryotherapy, has been recommended as an effective means of preventing retinal detachment. This therapy is of value in the management of retinal tears associated with the symptoms of flashes and floaters and persistent vitreous traction upon the retina in the region of the retinal break, because such symptomatic retinal tears are associated with a high rate of progression to retinal detachment. Retinal tears and holes unassociated with acute symptoms and lattice degeneration are significantly less likely to be the sites of retinal breaks that are responsible for later retinal detachment. Nevertheless, treatment of these lesions frequently is recommended, in spite of the fact that the effectiveness of this therapy is unproven.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Unknown 128 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 14%
Researcher 12 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Other 27 21%
Unknown 38 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 60 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Unspecified 5 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 8 6%
Unknown 42 33%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 March 2017.
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#6,752,979
of 23,791,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8,606
of 12,759 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#65,099
of 239,924 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#175
of 232 outputs
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