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Association between individual retinal layer thickness and visual acuity in patients with epiretinal membrane: a pilot study.
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- Artificial intelligence analysis of OCT biomarkers to predict visual outcomes following vitrectomy for epiretinal membrane.International journal of retina and vitreous · 2025Article
- Unveiling the limitations of OCT-based classification in diabetic epiretinal membranes: a call for integrative vascular and structural assessment with OCT-A.International ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Visual Performance and Predictive OCT Biomarkers in Epiretinal Membrane Assessment: Beyond Distance Visual Acuity.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- A classification of idiopathic epiretinal membrane based on foveal avascular zone area using optical coherence tomography angiography.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- Analysing early changes of photoreceptor layer thickness following surgery in eyes with epiretinal membranes.Eye (London, England) · 2024Article
- Preoperative ocular coherence tomographic prognosticators of visual acuity after idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery.International ophthalmology · 2022Review
- Incidence and risk factors of progressive nasal inner nuclear layer thickening after surgical peeling of epiretinal membrane.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Influence of Preoperative Foveal Layers' Thickness on Visual Function and Macular Morphology by Phacovitrectomy for Epiretinal Membrane.Journal of ophthalmology · 2022Article
- Retinal thickness profiles in patients with Behçet uveitis during remission.Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia · 2022Article
- Correlation between tangential distortion of the outer retinal layer and metamorphopsia in patients with epiretinal membrane.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeWe investigated the correlation between visual acuity (VA) and individual retinal layer thickness in the foveal, parafoveal, and perifoveal regions of patients with an idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM).
methodsOne hundred and five subjects presenting with unilateral idiopathic ERM were included in this study. We segmented each patient's optical coherence tomography (OCT) image into seven layers and calculated the mean layer thickness in the foveal, parafoveal, and perifoveal regions using the Iowa Reference Algorithm. In 105 patients with ERM, we detected correlations between their macular regions' individual retinal layer thickness and their best corrected VA. Thirty-one of the 105 patients with ERM underwent vitrectomy and completed six months of follow-up. We then compared the 31 surgical patients' preoperative and postoperative individual retinal layer thickness in each macular region. Additionally, the association between preoperative individual retinal layer thickness in each macular region and VA six months post-surgery in patients with ≥ two Snellen lines of visual improvement was determined.
resultsMultiple linear regression analysis showed that the inner nuclear layer (INL) thickness in the foveal, parafoveal, and perifoveal region were all associated with VA in the 105 patients (
conclusionWe detected a correlation between retinal damage and VA in the parafoveal, perifoveal, and foveal regions. Our results suggest that INL thickness in all macular regions may be a prognostic factor for postoperative VA in ERM patients.
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