Prophylactic internal limiting membrane peeling during rhegmatogenous retinal detachment surgery.

Dear Editor In the setting of a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells are released into the vitreous cavity and thought to provoke formation of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) membranes and PVR-related epiretinal membranes (ERM) following RRD surgery using the internal limiting membrane (ILM) as a scaffold (Fallico et al., 2018). Still, we report a significantly higher single surgery success rate in eyes that underwent peeling of the ILM during RRD surgery. [Extracted from the article]