Publications by authors named "Angela Lucente"

Purpose: To describe a comprehensive OCT-based classification of myopic traction maculopathy (MTM).

Methods: Two hundred eighty-one eyes with MTM (visited from 2006 to 2018), were retrospectively reviewed for age, best-corrected-visual-acuity (BCVA), axial length (AL), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and wide-field color fundus-photographs. The study was divided in two Phases.

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Background: The efficacy of a macular buckle in treating myopic traction maculopathy was studied.

Methods: Fifty eyes with myopic traction maculopathy, in the form of macular detachment with macular hole (MHMD), or without macular hole (MD) and macular foveoschisis (MF), were treated with vitrectomy combined with macular buckle or with a macular buckle without vitrectomy.

Results: Combined group: The combined group comprised 10 eyes with MHMD, 6 eyes with MD, and 4 eyes with MF.

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