Macular injuries secondary to handheld lasers in a paediatric population-clinical characteristics and indicators of visual impact.

The overall visual loss from macular laser injuries was low and we have identified features on retinal imaging that significantly impact presenting VA. When VA is affected following macular laser injury there is evidence of recovery with >50% of those presenting with VA ≤ 0.30 LogMAR improving to better than 0.30 LogMAR.