The Comparison of the Surgical Outcome for the Full-Thickness Macular Hole with/without Lamellar Hole-Associated Epiretinal Proliferation

Table 1

Demographic data for the patients.

Variables	LHEP+	LHEP−	value
Number of eyes	28	130
Sex, male/female	12/16	51/79	0.88
Age (years), mean ± SD	72.6 ± 7.9	68.6 ± 8.7	0.02
The axial length of the eye (mm), mean ± SD	24.6 ± 2.0	24.1 ± 1.7	0.16
Preoperative data
Preoperative visual acuity (logMAR), mean ± SD	0.64 ± 0.24	0.65 ± 0.30	0.83
Minimum diameter of FTMH (μm), mean ± SD	380.3 ± 237.2	314.4 ± 179.4	0.10
The diameter of basal side of FTMH (μm), mean ± SD	901.5 ± 404.9	658.9 ± 288.1	0.00027
Postoperative data
Visual acuity 6 months after the surgery (logMAR), mean ± SD	0.38 ± 0.30	0.26 ± 0.25	0.03
Ellipsoid zone, −/+	24/4	63/67	0.00071
External limiting membrane, −/+	15/13	23/107	0.00015

LHEP: lamellar hole-associated epiretinal proliferation; SD: standard deviation; FTMH: full-thickness macular hole.