DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000000408
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PMID: 25407237
Issn Print: 0275-004X
Publication Date: 2014/12/01
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We would like to thank Sebag et al for their interest in our recent RETINA editorial.1 We fully agree with the authors that an evaluation of contrast sensitivity, in addition to visual acuity, is of value when assessing the impact of vitreous floaters on patients' visual functioning.
Although the authors report an average coping time of 24 months in patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy for vitreous floaters, they have not included a range or SD of coping time before surgical intervention.2 We would be interested to know the shortest and longest amount of time in which they observed a patient before surgical intervention. The cautious approach of the authors, in allowing a significant period of attempted coping before surgery, seems advisable.
It is helpful to know that the 76 patients in their series were assembled over a 5-year-period as this is not reported in their article. In the series by Mason et al,3 by contrast, 168 eyes underwent vitrectomy for primary vitreous floaters over a 3-year study period. We concur with stringent patient selection in all of these cases and congratulate Sebag et al for their interesting study.
