With or without internal limiting membrane peeling during idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although previously published meta-analyses have compared the surgical effects between the methods of Idiopathic epiretinal membrane (iERM) removal with or without ILM peeling, they did not reach an agreement.

Purpose

We aimed to provide more evidence for the treatment of iERM and whether additional ILM peeling was better or not by analyzing more updated studies and randomized control trials (RCTs).

Method

The search was conducted in Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and Open Grey without language limitation and the studies included were from inception to December 2019. All studies of iERM with or without ILM peeling showed at least one of outcomes, such as best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), central macular thickness (CMT) and recurrence of

SUBMITTER: Huang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815136 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature