title: [Choroidal thickness after scleral buckling surgery in macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Enhanced depth imaging (EDI) optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides high-definition cross-sectional images of the choroid. Information on alterations in choroidal thickness (CT) after scleral buckling surgery (SBS) is rare.
  
  
  METHODS
  The medical charts of 122 patients (122 eyes) who underwent SBS for macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) were retrospectively analyzed. Patients with a follow-up ≥ 6 months were included. Postoperative EDI-OCT images concerning CT were evaluated 1 week, 1 month and 6 months postoperatively in 4 groups: group 1 cerclage + cryopexy (n = 39 eyes), group 2 cerclage + cryopexy + sponge (n = 28 eyes), group 3 SBS + subretinal fluid drainage (SRD) (n = 25 eyes) and group 4 SBS + sponge + SRD (n = 30 eyes). Subfoveal CT was compared between the groups and with the non-operated fellow eye.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Subfoveal CT in groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 was thicker 1 week postoperatively. There were no significant differences between the groups or when comparing the operated eye with the fellow eye 1 and 6 months postoperatively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There were no differences in subfoveal CT 1 and 6 months after SBS between the eye with macula-off RRD and the fellow eye. The use of a sponge or SRD induced no differences concerning subfoveal CT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, 10 Sok. No:45, 06490, Bahcelievler - Ankara, Türkei, retina95akk@yahoo.de.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Akkoyun
authors.forename: E Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Pınarcı
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yesilirmak
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002829:Choroid / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008266:Macula Lutea / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012591:Scleral Buckling / Q000379:methods*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome