title: Surgical outcomes of macular buckling techniques for macular retinoschisis in highly myopic eyes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the anatomic and visual results following macular buckling for patients with macular retinoschisis related to high myopia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-nine highly myopic eyes (mean refractive error -16.7 D; range, -9 to -24 D) of 36 patients (mean age 59 years; range, 35-79 years) presenting with macular retinoschisis associated with a posterior staphyloma, who underwent combined vitrectomy and macular buckling were evaluated. Main outcome measures included best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings. Three cases were excluded due to short follow-up (less than 3 months). The mean follow-up was 16 months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean BCVA increased from 0.76 to 0.43 LogMAR (p = 0.001). Visual acuity improved in 30 eyes (83.3%), remained stable in three eyes (8.3%) and decreased in three eyes (8.3%). OCT showed resolution of foveoschisis with foveal reattachment in all eyes. None of the evaluated patients developed a macular hole during follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Macular buckling associated with vitrectomy results in good anatomic and visual outcomes in patients with myopic foveoschisis.
authors.affiliation: IMO Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mateo
authors.affiliation: IMO Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: María V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Gómez-Resa
authors.affiliation: IMO Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Anniken
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burés-Jelstrup
authors.affiliation: IMO Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Micol
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alkabes
keywords: High myopia; Lamellar macular hole; Macular buckling; Macular detachment; Myopic foveoschisis; Optical coherence tomography; Pars plana vitrectomy; Posterior staphyloma; Retinoschisis