INTRAOPERATIVE SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING AFTER INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE PEELING IN IDIOPATHIC EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE WITH CONNECTING STRANDS
- Authors
- Nam, Dong Heun; Desouza, Philip J.; Hahn, Paul; Tai, Vincent; Sevilla, Monica B.; Tran-Viet, Du; Cunefare, David; Farsiu, Sina; Izatt, Joseph A.; Toth, Cynthia A.
- Issue Date
- Aug-2015
- Publisher
- LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
- Keywords
- connecting strands; idiopathic epiretinal membrane; ILM peeling; intraoperative optical coherence tomography; sub-ILM glial proliferation
- Citation
- RETINA-THE JOURNAL OF RETINAL AND VITREOUS DISEASES, v.35, no.8, pp.1622 - 1630
- Journal Title
- RETINA-THE JOURNAL OF RETINAL AND VITREOUS DISEASES
- Volume
- 35
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 1622
- End Page
- 1630
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/10305
- DOI
- 10.1097/IAE.0000000000000534
- ISSN
- 0275-004X
- Abstract
- Purpose:To report the intraoperative optical coherence tomography findings in idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM) with connecting strands and to describe the postoperative outcomes.Methods:A retrospective, case series study within a prospective observational intraoperative optical coherence tomography imaging study was performed. Epiretinal membranes with connecting strands were characterized on preoperative spectral domain optical coherence tomography images and assessed against corresponding intraoperative (after internal limiting membrane [ILM] peeling) and postoperative spectral domain optical coherence tomography images.Results:Eleven locations of the connecting strands in 7 eyes were studied. The connecting strands had visible connections from the inner retinal surface to the ERM in all locations, and the reflectivity was moderate in 8 locations and high in 3 locations. After ERM and ILM peeling, disconnected strands were identified in all of the intraoperative optical coherence tomography images. The reflectivity of the remaining intraoperative strands was higher than that of the preoperative lesions and appeared as finger-like and branching projections. The remaining disconnected lesions were contiguous with the inner retinal layers. Postoperatively, the intraoperative lesions disappeared completely in all locations, and recurrent formation of ERM was not identified in any eyes.Conclusion:In ERM eyes with connecting strands, intraoperative spectral domain optical coherence tomography imaging showed moderately to highly reflective sub-ILM finger-like lesions that persist immediately after membrane and ILM peeling. Postoperatively, the hyperreflective lesions disappeared spontaneously without localized nerve fiber layer loss. The sub-ILM connecting strands may represent glial retinal attachments.
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