Postvitrectomy macular hole undergoing delayed closure after 28 months

Case report of a 70-year-old male who developed full thickness macular hole (MH) following vitrectomy for vitreomacular traction syndrome. The further intervention was deferred due to the unwillingness of the patient for the second surgery. Periodic follow up of the patient, revealed improvement in...

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Autores principales: Patel, Rutul, Gopalakrishnan, Mahesh, Rajesh, Bindu, Giridhar, Anantharaman
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28905839
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_426_17
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author Patel, Rutul
Gopalakrishnan, Mahesh
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description Case report of a 70-year-old male who developed full thickness macular hole (MH) following vitrectomy for vitreomacular traction syndrome. The further intervention was deferred due to the unwillingness of the patient for the second surgery. Periodic follow up of the patient, revealed improvement in visual acuity with the closure of the MH after 28 months.
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spelling pubmed-56212782017-10-04 Postvitrectomy macular hole undergoing delayed closure after 28 months Patel, Rutul Gopalakrishnan, Mahesh Rajesh, Bindu Giridhar, Anantharaman Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Case report of a 70-year-old male who developed full thickness macular hole (MH) following vitrectomy for vitreomacular traction syndrome. The further intervention was deferred due to the unwillingness of the patient for the second surgery. Periodic follow up of the patient, revealed improvement in visual acuity with the closure of the MH after 28 months. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5621278/ /pubmed/28905839 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_426_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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