Predicting Visual Outcomes for Macula-Off Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment with Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 1

Preoperative characteristics and operative, visual, and anatomical outcomes of 56 eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and their possible association with 6-month postoperative visual acuity.

			value
Number of eyes	56	—	—
Age (years)	50.0 ± 19.8	0.09	0.524^a
Sex (, %)		—	0.557^b
Male	38, 67.9%	—	—
Female	18, 32.1%	—	—
Spherical equivalent (diopter)	−3.15 ± 2.67	−0.01	0.950^a
Duration of macular detachment (days)	33.3 ± 72.7	−0.09	0.565^a
Procedure (, %)		—	0.935^b
PPV only	10, 17.7%	—	—
PPV with cataract surgery	27, 48.2%	—	—
Scleral buckling	19, 33.9%	—	—
Visual course (decimal VA)
Preoperative	0.19 ± 0.27	0.48	<0.001^a
1 M postoperative	0.53 ± 0.51	0.82	<0.001^a
6 M postoperative	0.69 ± 0.55	—	—
Pre-op OCT findings
RD height (mm)	1.45 ± 0.87	0.47	<0.001^a
Total macular area (mm^2)	1.05 ± 0.16	−0.44	<0.001^a
Outer layer macular area (mm^2)	0.62 ± 0.13	−0.17	0.221^a
Middle layer macular area (mm^2)	0.19 ± 0.06	−0.04	0.759^a
Inner layer macular area (mm^2)	0.23 ± 0.08	−0.43	0.001^a
Post-op OCT findings
1 M postoperative FT (m)	269.9 ± 79.7	−0.37	0.006^a
6 M postoperative FT (m)	255.4 ± 35.7	−0.24	0.096^a

FT = foveal thickness, OCT = optical coherence tomography, PPV = pars plana vitrectomy, RD = retinal detachment, and VA = visual acuity.
^aSpearman’s correlation coefficient by rank test, ^bunpaired -test.