PROGRESSION OF PARTIAL POSTERIOR VITREOUS DETACHMENT OVER TIME.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We investigated interindividual differences in the rate of change of posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) stage and vitreomacular adhesion area (VMAA). Crosssectional studies demonstrated increasing PVD stage and decreasing VMAA with age, but population-level means may mask interindividual variation in the rate of change.

Methods

We retrospectively evaluated PVD stage and VMAA in asymptomatic eyes of subjects who underwent repeated optical coherence tomography screening for high-risk medication use or isolated retinal disease in the fellow eye. A Turnbull estimator modeled changes in the PVD stage, and linear mixed models evaluated VMAA change.

Results

We evaluated 101 eyes of 101 subjects. Seventy-six eyes remained in the same stage. Twenty-three eyes progress

SUBMITTER: Koller EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8885305 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature