Rao P, Kaiser R, Lum F, et al. - In a cohort of the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS Registry, researchers presented the reoperation rates of patients who underwent a primary noncomplex retinal detachment (RD) repair. The sample consisted of patients who had a primary noncomplex RD repair with either a scleral buckle (SB) or vitrectomy with or without scleral buckle (PPV +/- SB) between 2013 – 2016. Of the 24,068 individuals, 2,937 patients (12.2%) had a SB and 21,131 patients (87.8%) had PPV +/- SB. Data reported that the overall reoperation rate for SB was 12.2% and for PPV +/- SB was 11.6%. According to this retrospective, non-randomized comparative clinical study, the odds of reoperation of PPV +/- SB compared with SB only differ depending on the age of the patient. Further subset analyses are needed to determine whether clinically relevant differences exist with respect to RD configuration or other types of RD repair (PPV only vs PPV with SB).