Sylvain El-Khoury, Youssef Abdelmassih, Livin Uwemeye, Theophile Tuyisabe, Michael Mikhail
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Abstract
Purpose: The objective of this study is to report on the incidence and the characteristics of eccentric macular hole (EMH) as a complication of macular surgery with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in a black African population.
Methods: This is a retrospective consecutive case series. Files of 125 patients that received macular surgery were reviewed and 14 eyes of 14 patients were included in this study. Intervention consisted of pars plana vitrectomy with ILM peeling for full-thickness macular hole or epiretinal membrane. The main outcome measures were the development of EMH, their characteristics (location, number) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA).
Results: EMH developed in 14 eyes of 14 patients with a mean age of 64.5±9.4 years and a female predominance of 64%. The incidence of EMH was 11.2%. EMH developed on average 4.4±1.2 weeks following surgery. In 9 eyes (65%) location was temporal, in 3 eyes (21%) superotemporal and in 2 eyes (14%) inferotemporal. Multiple holes were observed in 12 eyes (86%), and 5 eyes (35%) had confluent holes. 9 eyes (64%) had only full-thickness holes, 4 eyes (29%) had both full-thickness and lamellar holes, and 1 eye (7%) had only lamellar holes. BCVA improved from 1.1±0.33logMAR to 0.89±0.26logMAR (p=0.017).
Conclusion: EMH formation showed a very high incidence in our setting and represents a main complication for macular surgery. In all cases, EMH formed in the temporal macula and in the majority of cases they were multiple and full-thickness.
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