Incidence and Risk Factors for Delayed Retinal Tears after an Acute, Symptomatic Posterior Vitreous Detachment.

Purpose: To determine the long-term incidence of and risk factors for delayed retinal tears after acute, symptomatic posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) without concurrent retinal tears.

Design: Retrospective, observational case series.

Subjects: Patients diagnosed with an acute, symptomatic PVD without concurrent retinal tears at a tertiary eye center between 2013 and 2018.