title: Evaluation of S-cone sensitivity in reattached macula following macula-off retinal detachment surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the recovery of short-wavelength sensitivity in patients who had undergone successful reattachment of a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with macular involvement.
  
  
  METHODS
  Postoperative assessment of the visual acuity and the visual fields by standard achromatic automated perimetry (SAP), and short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP, Humphrey visual field analyzer; macula test pattern) was performed on 12 patients after the macula was reattached. The follow-up period was up to 12 months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The visual acuity and SAP sensitivity recovered rapidly after reattachment, with further moderate improvements up to 6 months after reattachment. The improvements stabilized by 9 to 12 months. The SWAP sensitivities improved more slowly than the visual acuity or SAP sensitivities, but they continued to improve even when visual acuity or SAP sensitivities had stabilized.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that measurement of the sensitivities of the short-wavelength-sensitive cones (S-cones) with SWAP may be a sensitive method to evaluate the visual recovery of the reattached macula following macula-off retinal detachment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan. tstmski@jikei.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kohzaki
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kitahara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020127:Recovery of Function; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D017299:Rod Opsins / Q000502:physiology*; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D058609:Visual Field Tests; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D017299:Rod Opsins; C095853:short-wavelength opsin