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Table 4 Comparison of safety outcomes between the group of vitrectomy with ILM peeling and the group of vitrectomy with no ILM peeling

From: Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling vs no peeling for Macular Hole-induced Retinal Detachment (MHRD): a meta-analysis

Safety outcomes

No. of studies

No. of eyes

Study heterogeneity

Analysis model

Analysis of the pooled data

I2, %

P value

OR (95 % CI)

P value

Retinal breaks

2

73

0

1.00

fixed-effects

0.91 (0.17 to 5.02)

0.92

Epiretinal membrane

2

73

0

0.96

fixed-effects

0.31 (0.07 to 1.44)

0.13

Postoperative cataract

2

100

42

0.19

fixed-effects

1.10 (0.41 to 2.90)

0.85

Intraocular pressure rise

2

62

0

0.33

fixed-effects

0.89 (0.28 to 2.79)

0.84