Optic nerve head optical coherence tomography angiography findings in patients with thyroid eye disease: a case-control study.

Autor: Sabermoghaddam A; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Shoeibi N; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Jafarzadeh H; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Bakhtiari E; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Salahi Z; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Saeidi Rezvani T; Department of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran., Heidarzadeh HR; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Abrishami M; Eye Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. mojtaba_abrishami@yahoo.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Thyroid research [Thyroid Res] 2022 Sep 21; Vol. 15 (1), pp. 17. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 21.
DOI: 10.1186/s13044-022-00134-4
Abstrakt: Background: To evaluate changes in the vessel density (VD) of the optic nerve head (ONH) microvasculature in thyroid eye disease (TED) using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). This study aimed to applicate the OCTA as a noninvasive modality in screening TED patients to assess sub-clinical changes.
Methods: In a cross-sectional study, the control group patients were healthy individuals with no ocular abnormalities and were euthyroid. All patients with TED had clinical features of the disease. We divided them into two groups using the clinical activity score (CAS). Patients with CAS scores 0-2 were categorized as group A, and scores three or more as group B. All vessels (AV) and small vessels (SV) VD inside disc and radial peripapillary capillary network were measured using the ONH-OCTA.
Results: We evaluated 29 patients with TED and 28 healthy controls. The mean whole image AV VD (mean ± SD: 56.33 ± 2.56, p-value = 0.17) and the mean whole image SV VD (mean ± SD: 49.94 ± 2.56, p-value = 0.16) in the TED group had no statically significant difference compared with the control group (AV mean ± SD: 57.20 ± 20.22, SV mean ± SD: 50.84 ± 2.23). We found a non-significant decrease in AV and SV radial peripapillary capillary VD in the TED group. There was a significant decrease in the mean whole image AV VD (mean ± SD: 54.83 ± 3.07, p-value = 0.005) and the mean whole image SV VD (mean ± SD: 48.60 ± 3.18, p-value = 0.013) in CAS group B compared to group A (AV mean ± SD: 57.45 ± 1.33, SV mean ± SD: 50.95 ± 1.37).
Conclusion: Our study showed non-significant ONH vascular alterations in patients with TED, including reduced VD of ONH in the radial peripapillary capillary. Patients with higher CAS scores had a more noticeable decrease in ONH microvasculature.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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