title: CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF IDIOPATHIC FOVEOMACULAR RETINOSCHISIS.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the clinical features of idiopathic foveomacular retinoschisis not in association with myopia, glaucoma, optic disk pit, or juvenile retinoschisis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective observational case series. Five eyes of five patients with idiopathic foveomacular retinoschisis were included.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients were 2 men and 3 women (average age, 75.2 years; range, 71-78 years). The average spherical equivalent was +2.40 diopters (range, +0.88 to +5.75 diopters), and the average axial length was 22.0 mm (range, 21.1-23.1 mm). All patients had retinoschisis from the macula to the optic disk in the affected eye. No patients had retinoschisis in the fellow eye. The average best-corrected visual acuity was 20/44 (68 Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study letter score).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Idiopathic foveomacular retinoschisis is not inherited or associated with myopia, vitreomacular traction syndrome, optic pit, or glaucoma but is associated with older age, unilaterality, hyperopia with short axial length, complete posterior vitreous detachment, and weak leakage from the optic disk on fluorescein angiography.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; †Department of Ophthalmology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan; ‡Department of Ophthalmology, Okayama University School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan; and §Department of Ophthalmology, Kagawa University School of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maruko
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morizane
authors.forename: Shuhei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shiode
authors.forename: Mio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: Tetsuju
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sekiryu
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shiraga
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004596:Electroretinography; D019773:Epiretinal Membrane / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000473:pathology*; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000175:diagnosis; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000002:abnormalities; D012160:Retina / Q000503:physiopathology; D041441:Retinoschisis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence