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Area of Science:

  • Ophthalmology
  • Retinal Surgery
  • Vitreoretinal Techniques

Background:

  • Macular holes are a significant cause of vision loss.
  • Traditional surgical repair often involves gas tamponade and specific patient positioning.
  • There is a need for alternative techniques that simplify the postoperative management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe and evaluate an alternative vitreoretinal technique for macular hole closure.
  • To assess the efficacy of a viscoelastic-assisted internal limiting membrane flap without gas endotamponade.

Main Methods:

  • Prospective interventional case series (March 2019 - January 2020).
  • Patients underwent internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap creation using viscoelastic without gas.
  • Evaluated preoperative and postoperative visual acuity and foveal structure via optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Main Results:

  • Macular hole closure achieved in 11 of 12 eyes (91.7%) after a single procedure.
  • No gas tamponade was used in any patient.
  • Mean best-corrected visual acuity improved from 1.11 (20/258) preoperatively to 0.31 (20/40) at 3-month follow-up.

Conclusions:

  • The described technique successfully closes macular holes without gas endotamponade.
  • This method eliminates the need for postoperative patient positioning.
  • The technique offers comparable closure rates to traditional vitrectomy with gas, simplifying management.