Macular thickness assessment in healthy eyes based on ethnicity using Stratus OCT optical coherence tomography
| Autor: | Patrick J. Kelty, Berdine M. Burger, Jason Kelty, John F. Payne, Rupal H. Trivedi, Esther M. Bowie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male Intraocular pressure medicine.medical_specialty Aging genetic structures Eye disease medicine.medical_treatment OCT - Optical coherence tomography White People Signal strength Optical coherence tomography Reference Values Diabetes mellitus Ophthalmology Medicine Humans Macula Lutea Eye surgery Prospective cohort study Aged Sex Characteristics medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease eye diseases Black or African American Female sense organs business Tomography Optical Coherence |
| Zdroj: | Investigative ophthalmologyvisual science. 49(6) |
| ISSN: | 0146-0404 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE To assess the variation in macular thickness measurements in healthy Caucasian and African American men and women through Stratus OCT optical coherence tomography (OCT-3). METHODS One hundred sixty-six eyes of 83 healthy patients underwent complete ophthalmologic examination in this prospective study. Exclusion criteria included a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, intraocular pressure (IOP) greater than 21 mm Hg, history of eye surgery or trauma, or evidence of eye disease. For analysis purposes, the authors excluded those participants in whom OCT signal strength was |
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