Correlations between preoperative retinal pigment epithelial protrusions and postoperative outcomes in eyes with idiopathic macular holes

Background/Purpose: To determine the relationship between the alterations in the preoperative morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and the postoperative recovery after surgery to close an idiopathic macular hole (MH). Methods: Retrospective interventional case series. Fifty-nine eyes of 59 patients with an idiopathic MH were studied. Pars plana vitrectomy was performed with the removal of the internal limiting membrane. The best-corrected visual acuity was measured, and the retinal morphology, including the presence of small RPE protrusions at the bottom of MH, was determined by spectral domain optical coherence tomography before and at 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively. Results: The mean age of the patients was 66.7 years. Forty eyes (68%) had preoperative alterations of the RPE. The minimal (P
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