Evaluation of a new prognostic index for the idiopatic macular hole surgery / Avaliação de um novo índice prognóstico para a cirurgia do buraco macular idiopático

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2008

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Purpose: To create a new prognostic index for IMH surgery based on anatomical values of IMH height, external and internal diameters (MHPI). Type of Study: Prospective, interventional, case of series. Patients and Methods: 36 eyes with IMH of 36 patients followed at Hospital das Clinicas, University of São Paulo Medical School (HC-FMUSP) and Suel Abujamra Institute (ISA), São Paulo-SP, between October 2006 and October 2007, were included. IMH OCT measurements were obtained before surgery (Stratus - Zeiss version 4.01) Values of the larger external and internal diameters, and the IMH height were obtained using the OCT compass. The prognostic index of IMH (MHPI) was defined as the index height / internal base. MHPI was defined by using those OCT measurements. Patients underwent pars plana vitrectomy with ILM peeling without dye and were followed by 6 months. Patients were seen at days 1, 7, 14, and months 1, 2, 3, and 6 after surgery. At the end of the follow-up period, MHPI and, other variables (sex, age, ethnic group, stage of IMH following the biomicroscopic classification of Gass, the time of visual loss reported by the patient, and pre surgical visual acuity) were correlated with anatomical results and post-surgical visual acuity. Results: Twenty nine eyes (80.6%) of thirty six patients with IMH had anatomical closure at the end of the six-month follow-up (8.86 ± 4.23 months). Nineteen (52.7%) IMH were stage IV of Gass with more than one year duration in twenty one patients. Pre-surgical medium LogMAR VA was 1.10 (0.60 to 1.62) and post-surgical was 0.69 (0.0 to 1.60). Medium VA improvement was 3.94 lines. The internal base diameter (BINT) was larger in group 1 than in group 2 (t-Student Test, p=0.373). MHPI analisys showed significant difference between group 1 (average 0.49) and group 2 (average 0.91) (t-Student Test, p>0.001). Logistical regression showed that IMH with MHPI higher than 0.53 present 9.6 times more risk of failure than those with MHPI lower than 0.53 (Mann-Whitney, p=0.005). The percentage gain of VA was 41.93% in patients with MHPI >0.53, and 7.14% in patients with MHPI lower than 0.53 (p=0.002). In regards to the final LogMAR VA, all studied variables above submitted to Pearson correlation test. MHPI is inversely correlated with VA by linear regression with gradient procedure as best predictor of final VA (p<0.001 and p= 0.005 respectively). The sample shows that 58.4% of post-surgery VA is being explained by the MHPI and pre-surgery VA. Conclusions: A new prognostic index for IMH surgery was defined as IMH height/internal diameter. We concluded that MHPI may be used as a prognostic factor for IMH anatomical closure after surgical treatment. MHPI and preoperatory VA were the best correlated prognostic factors for 6-month VA.

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tomography optical coherence vitrectomy macula lútea prognosis macula lutea prognóstico vitrectomia tomografia de coerência óptica

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