Vision-Related Quality of Life and Visual Function Following Vitrectomy for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

Vitrectomy for PDR significantly improves VR-QOL. The current study quantitatively indicates that VR-QOL in PDR patients depends on visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in the better-seeing eye preoperatively and in both the better-seeing and worse-seeing eyes postoperatively.