Abstract
Viral retinitis of which incidence is 0.63/1000000 per year, is necrotizing, vaso-occlusive retinopathy. In practice, 90 % of cases are acute retinal necrosis in which etiological agents are Varicella-Zoster Virus and Herpes Simplex Virus and Cytomegalovirus retinitis. 65 % of patients with viral retinitis develop a retinal detachment. Retinal detachment due to viral retinitis is almost-always rhegmatogenous and tractional and associated with proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Pars plana vitrectomy combined with silicone oil injection is the most commonly used techniques for the treatment of retinal detachment associated with viral retinitis. Optic atrophy, chronic cystoid macular edema, epiretinal membrane, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, and hypotony are the most commonly seen complications that are limiting functional improvement.
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