Structural Recovery of the Detached Macula after Retinal

A substantial proportion of patients with macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) experience poor visual recovery even after successful re-attachment surgery. Many studies have shown associations between structural changes and final visual outcomes in macula-off retinal detachment (RD) patients who have undergone suc-cessful retinal re-attachment surgery. Preoperative visual acuity and duration of macular de-tachment are known to influence post-surgery visual out-comes [1-3]. More recent studies using optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed that preoperative OCT find-ings, such as a greater height of the detached fovea, and the presence of an intraretinal cyst, intraretinal separation (IRS), and/or outer layer undulation (OLU), were associ-ated with postoperative visual acuity [1,4,5]