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Effect of axial length and age on the visual outcome of patients with idiopathic epiretinal membrane after pars plana vitrectomy.
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- Association of Systemic and Ocular Comorbidities with Visual Recovery in Patients with Postoperative Corneal Oedema: A Real-World Study of Cataract Surgery Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of Axial Length on Visual Outcomes and OCT Findings in Epiretinal Membrane: A Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Comparisons of Clinical and Functional Characteristics of Patients with Epiretinal Membrane, Macular Pseudohole, Epiretinal Membrane Foveoschisis, and Lamellar Macular Hole.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Axial length-based comparison of clinical characteristics and visual outcomes in macular pseudohole, epiretinal membrane foveoschisis, and lamellar macular hole.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Endothelial Cell Changes After Pars Plana Vitrectomy: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Tertiary Care Center.Cureus · 2024Article
- Morphological Change in Optical Coherence Tomography and Functional Outcomes in Epiretinal Membrane Peeling with or without SF6 Tamponade.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane Surgery in Patients Aged Over 80 Years: Efficacy and Safety.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Risk of newly developing visual field defect and neurodegeneration after pars plana vitrectomy for idiopathic epiretinal membrane.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Shorter Axial Length Is a Risk Factor for Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy Grade C in Eyes Unmodified by Surgical Invasion.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration and Precision Therapy in Retinal Disease.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2020Review
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Abstract
We evaluated predictive factors for visual outcomes in patients with idiopathic epiretinal membrane (iERM) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV). Clinical records for 114 eyes (114 patients, mean age: 70.6 years) with iERM treated by PPV between March 2012 and March 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Overall, the mean postoperative best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central retinal thickness measured by optical coherence tomography improved as early as 1 month after surgery, and further improved until 3 months (P < 0.01). Multiple linear regression analyses adjusted for the preoperative BCVA showed that older age (B, 0.010; 95% confidence interval, 0.003 to 0.016; P = 0.003) and a shorter axial length (AL; B, -0.059; 95% confidence interval, -0.099 to -0.019; P = 0.005) predicted worse postoperative BCVA. The Mann-Whitney U test showed that the postoperative BCVA was worse in eyes with AL < 23.6 mm than in eyes with AL ≥ 23.6 mm (P = 0.037), and in patients aged ≥69 years than in patients aged <69 years (P = 0.024). The findings may help in evaluating surgical indications for each patient to obtain satisfactory outcomes, irrespective of the preoperative BCVA.
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