Purpose: To assess closure rate and visual outcome of a court of patients with macular hole (MH) who underwent surgical repair with intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT)-confirmed MH closure and short-term postoperative face-down posturing (FDP). Secondary aim was to assess the correlation between iOCT and postoperative OCT at day 1.
Methods: Retrospective clinical study conducted in the Miulli Hospital Acquaviva delle Fonti (Italy), enrolling patients with idiopathic MH who underwent 25-G pars plana vitrectomy plus internal limiting membrane peeling. During surgery, closure of MH was confirmed by iOCT and short-term FDP (12-24 h, until day-1 visit) was prescribed. All patients had measurement of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and spectral domain-OCT before the surgery and during follow-up (at 1 day, 1 month, 3 months).
Results: Twenty-nine eyes of 29 patients (14 males, 62.1%) were enrolled in the study. MH mean size was 451.7 ± 139.7 µm and baseline BCVA was 0.77 ± 0.26 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (LogMAR). MH was confirmed to be closed in 100% of patients intraoperatively (iOCT) and at OCT during early follow-up (1-3 days). Mean time of FDP was 18 ± 2.6 h. At 3 months, MH closure rate was 93%; 2 eyes -underwent secondary MH repair surgery. Final BCVA was 0.39 ± 0.22 LogMAR (p < 0.0001).
Conclusion: iOCT-based confirmation of MH closure could be a safe and useful tool for prescribing short-term FDP after surgery, with high closure rate and no additional complication. The execution of an OCT in the immediate postoperative days could be potentially unnecessary.
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