Macular Hole Surgery Improves Visual Acuity, Regardless of Type
Whether patients have a tractional or degenerative macular hole, pars plana vitrectomy can aid their visual functioning.
Whether patients have a tractional or degenerative macular hole, pars plana vitrectomy can aid their visual functioning.
However, research shows moderate alcohol use could offer some protective benefits. Clinicians Esen K. Akpek, MD, of Wilmer Eye, Victoria L. Tseng, MD, of UCLA, and Avnish Deobhakta, MD, of New York Ear and Eye, serve up some advice.
Secondary endpoints also failed to demonstrate any significant difference between study and control groups.
Some patients may require secondary lOL implantation, according to investigators.
The technology can help surgeons monitor microstructural changes following laser retinopexy and cryopexy, investigators report.
The increased incidence is likely linked with more cataract surgeries and a higher prevalence of myopia, researchers suggest.
Combined with antiviral therapy and steroid use, the prophylactic laser treatment helped stave off the complication.
Most only require 1 additional procedure — usually cataract surgery, the investigation shows.
Regular use of the erectile dysfunction drugs may be associated with a number of ocular adverse events, a large cohort study reveals.
Researchers reviewed 2 surgical approaches for pediatric patients who had failed pars plana vitrectomies.