Anterior vitrectomy for chronic aphakic cystoid macular edema.

This report describes a series of 13 patients who underwent anterior vitrectomies for chronic aphakic cystoid macular edema (CME). All eyes had formed vitreous adherent to the intracapsular wound, vision of 20/50 or worse, and fluorescein angiographically documented CME for six months or more. Following the presentation of the results (success rate of 69%) and a discussion of this form of treatment, the beginning of a national, randomized, prospective study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of this treatment is described.