Exclusive Use of Air as Gas Tamponade in Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment

Table 3

Clinical outcomes of each group.

	Control group	Air group	value
Primary reattachment rate (n, %)	68/72 (94.4%)	67/71 (94.4%)	0.951^†
Final reattachment rate (n, %)	72/72 (100.0%)	71/71 (100.0%)	1.000^†
BCVA (mean ± SD, logMAR)
At 1 month	0.33 ± 0.34	0.23 ± 0.25	0.021
At 3 months	0.20 ± 0.24	0.18 ± 0.19	0.561
IOP (mean ± SD, mmHg)
At 1 day	17.2 ± 7.2	10.5 ± 3.1	<0.001
At 7 days	15.6 ± 5.9	15.1 ± 4.2	0.414

Independent student’s t-test. ^†Chi-square test. BCVA: best-corrected visual acuity; IOP: intraocular pressure; logMAR: logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution.