Surgical Removal of Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane With and Without the Assistance of Indocyanine Green.

Summary

It was the aim of the present study to prospectively compare the functional and morphological outcome of idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery with and without the assistance of Indocyanine green (ICG). The main outcome measure was improvement of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA). This was treated as an open question and we had no hypothesis which of the two therapies was superior.

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paper Improvement in BCVA was not statistically significantly different whether ICG was used or not [0.17 (logarithm of minimum angle of resolution; logMAR) with ICG and 0.24 (logMAR) without ICG] (P = 0.59). PMID 17186261 ↗

Publications

• Hillenkamp J, Saikia P, Herrmann WA, Framme C, Gabel VP, Sachs HG. Surgical removal of idiopathic epiretinal membrane with or without the assistance of indocyanine green: a randomised controlled clinical trial. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2007 Jul;245(7):973-9. doi: 10.1007/s00417-006-0485-1. Epub 2006 Dec 21.

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