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Significance of preoperative external limiting membrane height on visual prognosis in patients undergoing macular hole surgery

Geenen, Caspar, Murphy, Declan C., Sandinha, Maria T., Rees, Jon and Steel, David H. W. (2019) Significance of preoperative external limiting membrane height on visual prognosis in patients undergoing macular hole surgery. RETINA, 39 (7). pp. 1392-1398. ISSN 0275-004X

Item Type: Article

Abstract

Purpose:
To investigate the association between the vertical elevation of the external limiting membrane (ELM) and visual outcome in patients undergoing surgery for idiopathic full-thickness macular hole.
Methods:
Retrospective observational study of a consecutive cohort of patients undergoing vitrectomy to treat macular hole. The greatest vertical height of the central ELM above the retinal pigment epithelium (ELM height) was measured on spectral domain optical coherence tomography preoperatively. The relationship of ELM height to other preoperative and postoperative variables, including macular hole width and height, and visual acuity was analyzed.
Results:
Data from 91 eyes of 91 patients who had undergone successful hole closure were included. The mean ELM height was 220 μm (range 100–394). There were significant correlations between the ELM height and the diameter of the hole, hole height, and worsening preoperative visual acuity. For holes less than 400 μm in width, better postoperative visual acuity was significantly predicted by a lower ELM height.
Conclusion:
The ELM height varies widely in idiopathic macular hole. It is higher in eyes where the hole is wider and also when the hole itself is higher. For holes of less than 400 μm in width, a lower ELM height is a strong independent predictor of a good postoperative outcome.
Reprint requests: David H. W. Steel, FRCOphth, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Queen Alexandra Road, Sunderland, United Kingdom SR2 9HP, e-mail: David.steel@ncl.ac.uk
Presented in part at the Floretina meeting, Florence, Italy, April 27, 2017.
D. H. W. Steel is a consultant to Alcon. The remaining authors have no financial/conflicting interests to disclose.
© 2018 by Ophthalmic Communications Society, Inc.

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Item ID: 9459
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1097/IAE.0000000000002137
ISSN: 0275-004X
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/9459
Official URL: https://journals.lww.com/retinajournal/Fulltext/pu...

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ORCID for Jon Rees: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-244X

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Date Deposited: 17 May 2018 13:05
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2020 11:03

Contributors

Author: Jon Rees ORCID iD
Author: Caspar Geenen
Author: Declan C. Murphy
Author: Maria T. Sandinha
Author: David H. W. Steel

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing
Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Psychology

Subjects

Sciences > Biomedical Sciences

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