Table 3.

Preoperative visual acuity and visual acuity change at 12 months in the different subgroups

	Visual acuity		VA change at 12 months‡
Group	Preoperative	At 12 months	Improvement	Stationary	Loss	Av of lines gained or lost at 12 months
Occult CNV	20/60 to 20/600 (0.39 to 1.52)* (0.83 (0.35))†	20/40 to CF (0.22 to 1.7)* (1.02 (0.41))†	4	8	6	−0.81
Classic CNV	20/200 to 20/600 (1 to 1.52)* (1.12 (0.26))†	20/100 to HM (0.7 to 2)* (1.3 (0.5))†	–	5	1	−1.94
Subretinal haemorrhage	20/125 to LP (0.8 to 2.3)* (1.65 (0.47))†	20/160 to HM (0.9 to 2)* (1 (0.31))†	9	5	1	+4.5
Total	20/60 to LP (0.39 to 2.3)* (1.19 (0.54))†	20/40 to HM (0.22 to 2)* (1.17 (0.4))†	13	18	8

VA = visual acuity, Av = average, best corrected visual acuity, *logMAR scale; †Mean; ‡change equals gain or loss more than three lines on logMAR scale.