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No effect of subretinal fluid on visual recovery seen after retinal detachment surgery
Subretinal fluid at the macula following scleral buckling surgery does not appear to affect postoperative visual recovery, a study using optical coherence tomography found.
Takayuki Baba, MD, and colleagues at Tokyo Medical and Dental University used optical coherence tomography (OCT) to observe postoperative changes in the macula and changes in visual acuity in 15 eyes of 15 patients treated for macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
In the study, indirect ophthalmoscopy showed that all eyes had successfully reattached retinas by 2 weeks postop. OCT showed subretinal fluid accumulating at the fovea in nine eyes, persisting to 6-month follow-up in four eyes.
No effect on visual recovery was noted from the presence of fluid, the authors said.
The study is published in Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.