Epiretinal membrane removal in patients with Stargardt disease

Abstract

Epiretinal membranes (ERMs) in Stargardt disease have been known to undergo spontaneous separation in children. Results of surgical intervention in adult patients with Stargardt disease have rarely been reported. A retrospective review of results of surgical intervention for ERM causing visual impairment in two adult patients of Stargardt disease was carried out. Both patients developed ERM in one eye during their follow-up period with the resultant drop in their preexisting visual acuity. Postsurgery, restoration of foveal contour with some improvement in visual acuity was observed in both patients. No adverse effect of surgery was noted.

Keywords

• Cup to disc ratio
• disc area
• glaucoma probability score
• moorfields regression analysis
• optical coherence tomography
• Antioxidant supplementation
• diabetes mellitus
• free oxygen radicals test
• nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy
• reactive oxygen species
• In vivo confocal microscopy
• keratocyte density
• prostaglandin analogues
• Chronic glaucoma patients
• economic burden
• socioeconomic profile
• Bevacizumab
• macular edema
• refractory
• retinal vein occlusion
• triamcinolone acetonide
• Corneal thickness
• menstrual cycle
• pachymetry
• refractive surgery
• Cytokines
• diabetic retinopathy
• pigment epithelium-derived factor
• vascular endothelial growth factor
• Choroidal metastases
• intravitreal bevacizumab
• transpupillary thermotherapy
• Fundus examination
• halogen light
• indirect ophthalmoscope
• light emitting diode
• photo-stress test
• Algorithm
• cross-linking
• Intacs
• keratoconus
• normogram
• Bibliometrics
• biomedical research
• journal impact factor
• ophthalmic research
• surgical research
• Aortic insufficiency
• arrhythmia
• ocular pulse amplitude
• ventricular bigeminy
• Ciliary body atrophy
• iris atrophy
• ocular hypotony
• progressive hemifacial atrophy
• Malaria fever
• microvascular occlusion
• Plasmodium falciparum
• proliferative retinopathy
• Epiretinal membrane
• stargardt disease
• vitrectomy