How effective is macular hole surgery?

Macular hole is a relatively common eye disease, which usually occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. It can easily affect the health of the eye and cause blurred vision, retinal abnormalities and other phenomena. There are many ways to treat macular holes, and surgical treatment is a relatively common method. After surgical treatment of macular holes, the eyes can be relieved.

Is macular hole surgery effective?

Macular hole is a type of eye disease. It is not very common in life and mainly occurs among the elderly. Therefore, many of our friends may not know much about macular hole. The main causes of macular holes are generally related to the patient's lack of attention to personal eye health or trauma, high myopia, retinal degeneration and other diseases. After suffering from macular holes, it mainly relies on surgical treatment to achieve the purpose of cure, because there is currently no effective treatment for macular holes.

Because macular holes mainly occur among the elderly, if the elderly experience symptoms such as eye edema, retinal detachment, decreased vision, and distorted vision, they should be alert to whether they have macular holes. They should go to the hospital for examination immediately and receive timely surgical treatment after diagnosis. As long as the patient actively receives treatment, the cure rate is still very high.

Generally, as long as you go to a regular hospital, you can undergo surgery for macular hole, and the cure rate of the surgery is as high as 90%. If the patient is not treated in time, the condition will worsen, which will not only increase the difficulty of treatment, but also may cause other eye complications, such as epiretinal membrane formation, retinal detachment, etc.

Patients with macular holes should also pay attention to daily care, eat more high-vitamin, high-calcium, and high-calorie foods, and avoid eating spicy, stimulating, raw, cold, and hard foods. In addition, you should also pay attention to rest, avoid overwork and stay up late.

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Patients should pay attention to maintaining a light eating habit, drink plenty of water, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, do not eat too much spicy and hot food to prevent the body from getting inflamed, and also prevent eye fatigue. Do not stay up late often and do not use the eyes for a long time.

Causes

Except for idiopathic macular hole, the causes of other causes are relatively clear, such as trauma, high myopia, cystoid macular edema, inflammation, retinal degeneration diseases, epiretinal membrane and eclipse retinopathy.

It took more than a century to understand idiopathic macular holes. In 1988, Gass proposed that tangential traction on the retinal surface in the macular area was the main cause of idiopathic macular holes, which provided a theoretical basis for the use of vitrectomy to treat macular holes. This theory is based on the adjacent anatomical relationship of the vitreous retinal interface. During the aging process of the human body, vitreous liquefaction and posterior vitreous detachment occur. There is often residual vitreous posterior cortex on the retinal surface. Due to the proliferation of vitreous cells in the residual posterior cortex, a pulling force parallel to the retinal surface is formed on the retinal surface in the fovea area. Initially, the central fovea detaches, followed by foveal detachment, and finally a full-thickness macular hole is formed.