Natural course of lamellar macular holes

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The issue of indications for surgical treatment of lamellar macular holes (LMH) remains debatable, especially considering the different opinions about the possibility of their progression.

PURPOSE

To study natural course of LMH and to develop criteria of their progression.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The study analyses retrospective data of patients with LMH observed in S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution from 2013 to 2018 who were examined by optical coherence tomography (OCT) at least 2 times with an interval between the initial and last examinations of at least 6 months. The examinations were carried out to evaluate the types of LMH and epiretinal membrane, the ellipsoid zone of photoreceptors and vitreoretinal interface, as well as calculate the changes in the quantitative parameters of the LMH.

RESULTS

One hundred and three patients with LMH were identified; data of 65 patients (65 eyes) was studied in detail. The follow-up lasted 20.5±12.9 months on average. Statistically substantiated criteria for the progression of tractional and degenerative LMH were developed, taking into account the OCT changes most significant for each type of LMH. According to the proposed criteria, signs of marked progression were found in 2 (5.3%) of 38 patients with tractional and 4 (14.8%) of 27 patients with degenerative LMH. Moderate progression was detected in 2 (5.3%) patients with tractional and 2 (7.4%) patients with degenerative LMH. In two patients who were not included in the groups for calculating the criteria for progression, the formation of a full-thickness macular hole has occurred.

CONCLUSION

One of the variants of the natural course of LMH can be its progression up to transition into a full-thickness macular hole. The proposed statistically substantiated criteria allows identifying dangerous progression of LMH, which should be taken into account when determining the treatment tactics.

Keywords:

optical coherence tomography

lamellar macular hole

degenerative

tractional

natural history

progression criteria

epiretinal membrane

Authors:

A.A. Shpak

S.N. Fyodorov National Medical Research Center «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery»

D.O. Shkvorchenko

S.N. Fyodorov National Medical Research Center «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery»

O.Yu. Vedernikova

S.N. Fyodorov National Medical Research Center «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery»

P.M. Shahabutdinova

S.N. Fyodorov National Medical Research Center «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery»

Received:

16.05.2019

Accepted:

10.07.2019

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