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ArticleBMC ophthalmology2020

Vitrectomy with or without internal limiting membrane peeling for myopic foveoschisis.

Junmin Gui, Ling Ai, Ting Huang

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Article in BMC ophthalmology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junmin GuiDepartment of Retinal & Vitreous Diseases, Chongqing Aier-Mega Eye Hospital, Aier Medical Group, 288 Nanchen Street, Chongqing, 400060, People's Republic of China. Junmingui@163.com.
Ling AiDepartment of Retinal & Vitreous Diseases, Chongqing Aier-Mega Eye Hospital, Aier Medical Group, 288 Nanchen Street, Chongqing, 400060, People's Republic of China.
Ting HuangDepartment of Retinal & Vitreous Diseases, Chongqing Aier-Mega Eye Hospital, Aier Medical Group, 288 Nanchen Street, Chongqing, 400060, People's Republic of China.
Chongqing Emergency Medical Center · CN

Funding

Aier Medical Group AF151D07
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe aim of this study was to compare the anatomical and visual outcomes of vitrectomy with or without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling for symptomatic myopic foveoschisis (MF).

methodsA retrospective cohort study of patients who had undergone vitrectomy for symptomatic MF at our specialist ophthalmology department in China. Cases were retrospectively categorized into one of two cohorts, depending on whether or not they had undergone ILM peeling (ILMP) during their surgery. Over a mean follow-up period of 18 months, all eyes underwent repeated examinations, including best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and optical coherence tomographic (OCT) recordings, particularly focusing on central foveal thickness (CFT), macular hole (MH) formation and/or foveal detachment (FD).

resultsWe included 32 eyes (32 patients) with mean age of 62.2 ± 7.4 years. 31 patients (96.8%) were female. There were 21 eyes in the ILMP cohort and 11 eyes in the non-ILMP cohort. There were no significant preoperative differences in age, axial length, symptom duration or postoperative follow-up period between the two cohorts. MF was resolved completely in all of the eyes except one eye in the ILMP cohort. The postoperative CFT was significantly reduced compared to the preoperative baseline in both cohorts (469 ± 203 μm to 253 ± 56 μm; p = 0.003 in no-ILMP; 495 ± 178 μm to 244 ± 63 μm; p <  0.001 in ILMP, respectively). The final BCVA improved significantly in non-ILMP (1.27 ± 0.63 logMAR to 0.73 ± 0.55 logMAR; p = 0.021); but not significantly in ILMP cohort (1.25 ± 0.51 to 0.98 ± 0.57 logMAR; p = 0.143).

conclusionVitrectomy, either with or without ILM peeling, results in a significant anatomical improvement in eyes with MF. Eyes treated by vitrectomy may have a better visual improvement when ILM was not peeled.

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Visual AcuityAgedBasement MembraneFemaleFollow-Up StudiesFovea CentralisHumansMaleMiddle AgedMyopia, DegenerativeRetinoschisisRetrospective StudiesTomography, Optical CoherenceVitrectomyIndocyanine greenInternal limiting membraneMyopic foveoschisisVitrectomy

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PMID32131776
PMCPMC7055105
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