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Two-year results of metamorphopsia, visual acuity, and optical coherence tomographic parameters after epiretinal membrane surgery
- Source :
- Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 254:1041-1049
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- To determine the 2-year results of metamorphopsia, visual acuity, and optical coherence tomographic (OCT) parameters after epiretinal membrane (ERM) removal, and to evaluate the correlations among them.We studied 75 eyes of 75 patients with an ERM who underwent vitrectomy and membrane peeling. The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), metamorphopsia scores, and OCT parameters were measured at the baseline, and 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months postoperatively. M-CHARTS were used to quantify the degree of metamorphopsia.The mean BCVA, degree of metamorphopsia, and all of the OCT parameters except the photoreceptor outer segment (PROS) length improved significantly from that at the baseline at 24 months (P 0.001). However, they were not significantly different from those at 12 months. The better BCVA at 24 months was correlated with the longer PROS length at the baseline (P 0.01). The degree of metamorphopsia at 24 months was significantly correlated with that at baseline (P 0.01).A postoperative follow-up period of 12 months may be sufficient to assess the improvements induced by the ERM surgery. The preoperative PROS length was the prognostic factor for the postoperative BCVA. The preoperative degree of metamorphopsia was the prognostic factor for the postoperative degree of metamorphopsia, suggesting that surgery for ERM should be performed before development of severe metamorphopsia.
- Subjects :
- Male
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
genetic structures
medicine.medical_treatment
Vision Disorders
Visual Acuity
Vitrectomy
Ophthalmoscopy
Tonometry, Ocular
03 medical and health sciences
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Optical coherence tomography
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Metamorphopsia
Prospective Studies
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Slit Lamp
Slit lamp
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Epiretinal Membrane
Coherence (statistics)
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Sensory Systems
030104 developmental biology
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
Optometry
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
Epiretinal membrane
business
Tomography, Optical Coherence
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1435702X and 0721832X
- Volume :
- 254
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3bedddf6b937f02003ad840c5da53ecd