Mean postoperative visual acuity in patients receiving pars plana vitrectomy and scleral buckle procedures
| Vitrectomy | Scleral buckle | Significance† Vitrectomy vs scleral buckle | |||||||||
| n | Mean (logMAR) | SD (logMAR) | Snellen | Significance* | n | Mean (logMAR) | SD (logMAR) | Snellen | Significance* | ||
| Preoperative | 38 | 1.61 | 0.73 | 20/814 | – | 22 | 0.95 | 0.84 | 20/178 | – | <0.001 |
| POM3 | 31 | 1.23 | 0.75 | 20/339 | 0.050 | 20 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 20/95 | 1.000 | 0.027 |
| POM6 | 30 | 1.10 | 0.80 | 20/251 | 0.011 | 16 | 0.77 | 0.73 | 20/117 | 0.567 | 0.077 |
| POM12 | 26 | 1.05 | 0.80 | 20/224 | 0.012 | 12 | 0.52 | 0.47 | 20/66 | 0.422 | 0.254 |
| Final visit | 38 | 1.19 | 0.98 | 20/309 | 22 | 0.58 | 0.73 | 20/76 | 0.055 | ||
| Global comparison—any change from preoperative: <0.001 | Global comparison—any change from preoperative: 0.002 | ||||||||||
*Within-group comparison from baseline.
†Between-group comparisons between operative procedure.
POM, postoperative month.