Effects of preoperative and postoperative epiretinal membranes on macular hole closure and visual restoration

Correlation between foveal structure and visual outcome following macular hole surgery: a spectral optical coherence tomography study

“…However, the Vitrectomy for Macular Hole Study Group investigated 91 patients, and found that postoperative ERM formation has no influence on postoperative visual acuity, and that only extensive ERM growth can provoke reopening of the macular hole [3]. Postoperative epiretinal membranes were not noted in our patients, and this may be due to the fact that ILM peeling was performed in all cases.…”

Impact of Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling on Macular Hole Reopening

“…After all inclusion criteria were applied, there were 50 articles that fulfilled the prerequisites: 7 studies had arms evaluating both ILM peeling and non-ILM peeling, 3,9,11,[15][16][17][18] 13 studies evaluated non-ILM peeling only, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] and 30 studies evaluated ILM peeling only. [4][5][6][7][8]10, Figure 1 shows the flow chart of the selection process used to identify the studies concerned.…”

Predicting Visual Outcome following Surgery for Idiopathic Macular Holes

“…In the investigation of 91 eyes enrolled in The Vitrectomy for Macular Hole Study Group, stepwise regression analysis revealed that the preoperative hole size was the only predictor of postoperative visual acuity [53]. Traditionally, MH size had been estimated based on biomicroscopic observation or photographic evaluation.…”