Surgical treatment for traumatic macular holes: Reconstructive changes in foveal microstructures and visual predictors analysis

Purpose To investigate the reconstructive changes in foveal microstructures and analyze the visual predictors in eyes with surgically closed traumatic macular holes.
Methods 71 eyes with TMHs that underwent vitrectomy were reviewed. Clinical data, best-corrected visual acuity and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images were recorded. The length of ellipsoid zone (EZ) defect and the integrity of postoperative external limiting membrane (ELM) were measured.
Results The primary hole closure rate was 90.14% (64/71). In 43 initially closed eyes with SD-OCT scans, the number of eyes with intact ELM increased from 18 (41.86%) at 1 month to 26 (60.47%) at 6 months postoperatively (P=0.08), while the number of eyes with restored EZ band remain the same in 2 eyes (4.65%). The mean length of EZ defect progressively decreased (P

Source: Ophthalmologica - July 14, 2020 Category: Opthalmology Source Type: research